Sublime Schubert at Rencontres Musicales d’Évian

By Mark Pullinger, 06 July 2020

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“the finale was especially genial, gleaming with French polish”

Reviewed at La Grange au Lac, Evian les Bains on 6 July 2020

Schubert, Piano Quintet in A major, "The Trout", D.667

Schubert, String Quintet in C major, D.956

Modigliani Quartet

Amaury Coeytaux, Violin

Loïc Rio, Violin

Laurent Marfaing, Viola

François Kieffer, Cello

Gautier Capuçon, Cello

Yann Dubost, Double Bass

Bertrand Chamayou, Piano

A history of feminine music: a starry lineup in Paris

David Karlin, 8th March

Dreisig, Degout, Jaroussky – the cream of French singing puts the history of female composers on show for International Women's Day.

***11

All-Schumann evening at Wigmore Hall

Nahoko Gotoh, 30th December

An all-Schumann chamber music concert doesn’t come around that often even at the Wigmore Hall, so I was delighted that the Modigliani Quartet presented a programme of his major chamber works with pianist Beatrice Rana.

****1

Replacement player no bar to Modigliani Quartet success

David Larkin, 12th October

To lose a player on the eve of a tour is nothing short of a disaster for a string quartet. However, substitute cellist Christophe Morin fits in well with the rest of the Modigliani Quartet in a revised program in Sydney.

****1

Modigliani Quartet - Wigmore Hall

Sebastian Scotney, 4th July

Modigliani Quartet - HaydnString Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise' String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 The Quatuor Amedeo Modigliani - Philippe Bernhard, and Loïc Rio, violins, Laurent Marfaing,viola and François Kieffer, 'cello -comes garlanded with prizes.

Les Modigliani, princes du quatuor à Radio France

Pierre Michel, 23rd September

De Haydn aux Quatuors « Razoumovski » de Beethoven, le Quatuor Modigliani a livré un formidable concert en crescendo, pour le début d'une résidence à suivre avec attention dans la maison ronde...

*****

Les sérénades britanniques de la Monnaie et Altinoglu à Colmar

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 6th July

Le second concert de l'Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie a mobilisé moins de spectateurs, mais les absents ont eu tort, tant le programme britannique agencé par Alain Altinoglu méritait le déplacement.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.