Mirrors and echoes: Pierre Boulez celebrated at the Lucerne Festival

Liv Redpath, Karina Canellakis and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Karina Canellakis conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

By Elodie Olson-Coons, 29 August 2025

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“the choir enters: barely present, a rumour, a whisper on the wind”

Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne on 27 August 2025

Boulez, Le Soleil des eaux (The Sun of the Waters)

Chin, Piano Concerto

de Raaff, L'Azur (World premiere)

Boulez, Pli selon pli: Don

Bertrand Chamayou, Piano

Liv Redpath, Soprano

Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor)

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest)

Karina Canellakis, Conductor

Denève, Lewis and the Netherlands Radio Phil in Utrecht

Laurence Vittes, 23rd January

At TivoliVredenburg’s Grote Zaal: a program of Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that, intentionally or not, invited reflection on long-range musical continuity.

***11

Edward Gardner conducts an emotional L'Enfance du Christ in Utrecht

Clare Varney, 19th December

The Netherlands National Radio Choir and National Children's Choir amplify the emotional intensity of Berlioz's L’ Enfance du Christ at TivoliVredenburg.

****1

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius

Clare Varney, 13th June

British vocal talent adds some very British glamour to the closing Avrotros Friday concert featuring Elgar's most famous oratorio.

***11

White-knuckle ride: Bomsori Kim plays Tchaikovsky at the Concertgebouw

Eleanor Knight, 3rd July

Bomsori Kim tackles the dangers of Tchaikovsky's concerto, before Ryan Bancroft and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic hurtle through Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

****1

Brazilian-flavoured Rite of Spring opens the Holland Festival

Eleanor Knight, 6th June

Evangelia Kranioti's film reawakens the extraordinary extremity of Stravinksy's original ballet score in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic's performance.

****1

Grounded Beethoven, intense Shostakovich in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 12th May

Karina Canellakis brings her Netherlands Radio Philharmonic to the Musikverein, joined by Emanuel Ax in Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

****1

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Elodie Olson-Coons

Originaire de Lorraine, Elodie Olson-Coons a fait ses études littéraires à Cambridge. Mezzo-soprano et pianiste, elle est particulièrement intéressée par la musique contemporaine et vocale.