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Esa-Pekka Salonen dirige de somptueux et lumineux Gurrelieder

By Gilles Lesur, 18 March 2014
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“Merci et bravo Maestro !”
Reviewed at Salle Pleyel, Paris on 14 March 2014
Programme
Schoenberg, Gurre-Lieder
Performers
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Chœur de Radio France
Howard Arman, Conductor
MDR Radio Choir Leipzig
Denis Comtet, Conductor
Katarina Dalayman, Soprano
Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-soprano
Robert Dean Smith, Tenor
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Tenor
Gábor Bretz, Bass
Barbara Sukowa, Narrator
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Tombé à l’âge de 10 ans dans la musique grâce à une manécanterie il n’en est plus jamais ressorti. Quelques années après il rejoignait un grand chœur parisien tout juste fondé avant de réussir simultanément le concours de médecine. Depuis il mène de front ces deux passions !