Kamioka and NJP reveal the beauty of Magnard's hidden masterpiece

By Yawara Watanabe, 26 March 2019

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Reviewed at Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo on 22 March 2019

Mozart, Symphony no. 31 in D major, "Paris”, K297 (K300a)

Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major

Ravel, Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes

Magnard, Symphony no. 4 in C sharp minor, Op.21

Boieldieu, La Dame blanche: Overture

Claire-Marie Le Guay, Piano

New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra

Toshiyuki Kamioka, Conductor

Le mariage enchanteur du jazz et du classique à Dinard

Alain Lompech, 16th July

Expérience sensorielle et émotionnelle rare de reconnaître un thème de jazz connu se glisser dans une harmonie « française » à la couleur plus modale que tonale.

*****

Sous le ciel étoilé de La Scala : Aux Armes, Contemporains !

Julius Lay, 12th October

Pour le troisième concert d'Aux Armes, Contemporains ! à La Scala Paris, les quatuors Aeolina et Girard ainsi que Claire-Marie Le Guay jouent Hersant, Matalon, Drouet, Waksman et Escaich.

****1

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

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Yawara Watanabe

Yawara Watanabe is a Tokyo based music writer with a special interest in chamber music. He has visited major international chamber music competitions all over the world, especially string quartets, and is now a member of a brain trust for the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa. He has also toured a lot with chamber music groups in Asian countries. His another interest is modern opera and he has worked as one of the writers for “Operas after WW2” published by the New National Theater Japan, Tokyo.

Kamioka and the New Japan Philharmonic reveal the beauty of Magnard's hidden masterpiece