Steve Reich's minimalist music has a big effect on the Salle Pleyel

By Leopold Tobisch, 06 May 2014

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“superbly performed by the orchestra under Järvi’s charismatic and playful conducting”

Reviewed at Salle Pleyel, Paris on 5 May 2014

Reich, Duet

Reich, Clapping Music

Reich, The Four Sections

Reich, The Desert Music

MDR Symphony Orchestra

MDR Radio Choir Leipzig

Kristjan Järvi, Conductor

Steve Reich

Bach to basics at Bachfest Leipzig

Sam Johnstone, 11th June

Three concerts over one day at the opening weekend of Bachfest Leipzig combined Bach’s music with that of composers from Rachmaninov to Sibelius, but nothing matches the unrivalled bliss of Bach’s own music performed with total conviction.

***11

Handel's somewhat rare oratorio Susanna in the Halle Handel Festival

Sandra Bowdler, 14th June

Handel's oratorio Susanna is often considered to be less than consistently dramatic and this performance in the Halle Handel Festival did little to dispel that view.

***11

Aix Easter Festival: Janowski conducts Ein Deutsches Requiem

Mark Valencia, 17th April

Janowski's concept rang consistently true and the musicians did him proud.

***11

Albrecht’s Mahler 8 is a fierce struggle for redemption

Jenny Camilleri, 23rd February

Leading five choirs, fine soloists and a glowing Netherlands Philharmonic, conductor Marc Albrecht emphasised the human struggle in a highly dramatic performance of Mahler’s mammoth eighth symphony.

*****

Marek Janowski returns to Weber’s Euryanthe

John Johnston, 19th January

Emily Magee was in glowingly refulgent voice as the 'damsel in distress', Euryanthe, in this concert performance of Weber's rarity.

****1

Esa-Pekka Salonen s'illustre dans les Gurrelieder

Gilles Lesur, 14th March

Les occasions d’entendre les Gurrelieder d’Arnold Schönberg ne sont pas si fréquentes.

*****

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Leopold Tobisch

Leopold is currently working on his PhD, examining the music and politics in Paris during the events of May '68. A violinist, amateur photographer and overall musical omnivore, he is currently living in Paris in order to further his PhD research.