Oeuvre: Suite italienne

Rare est une telle symbiose entre partenaires de musique de chambre. Lukas Geniusas et Aylen Pritchin semblent participer de la même entité organique, du même souffle, de mêmes pulsions. Au programme : Stravinsky, Tchaïkovsky, Desyatnikov et Beethoven.

The players gathered at the bar for a Scotch as the credits rolled. After three hours and twenty minutes of note-taking, I decided to follow suit.

A generous programme by Alban Gerhardt and Víkingur Ólafsson saw a tale of two halves, with the classical poise of the first half and the more extrovert showpieces of the second.