ALAIN ALTINOGLU & NORA GUBISCH / PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS
Dark tunnels, eerie shadows and mysterious doors: Alain Altinoglu conducts the Orchestre de Paris in a programme traversed by the dark forces. After the arranged suite of Pelléas et Mélisande with incredible orchestral refinement, the French conductor joins Alexandre Tharaud in the tragic Ravel’s Concerto…
THE TRIO MESSIAEN AT THE AUDITORIUM DU LOUVRE
Famous for his comic operas inspired by Goldoni or Molière, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has also distinguished himself in the field of chamber music, thanks to a constantly renewed melodic invention. Rewarded in 2018 during the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, the musicians of the Trio Messiaen…
VICTOR JULIEN-LAFERRIERE AT THE THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES ON FEBRUARY 22, 2020
“A weekend of total immersion in the rich, warm sound of the cello in all its guises from Bach to the present day. The second concert features Victor Julien-Laferrière, one of the finest young cellists of the French school with a programme in four sections….
NEW ALBUM RELEASE: FANNY CLAMAGIRAND | BEETHOVEN & VASKS
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is so familiar to us today that it is hard to imagine how the first listeners were confused when they discovered the piece at the time. Quite the opposite of Far Light, the first of two violin concertos by Latvian Pēteris Vasks:…
Xavier Phillips performs Offenbach in Paris (Salle Gaveau)
Sometimes we forget that the future composer of La Vie Parisienne and Orphée aux Enfers was an amazing virtuoso of an instrument he had studied in Germany. Nicknamed the “Liszt cello”, Offenbach, during his early years in Paris, was famous in the salons and participated…