Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder — Riccardo Chailly at the Concertgebouw
« The sensation of these sound waves exhilarates me to the point of swooning » (Anton Webern) It took 103 years. Surprisingly, more than…
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Roussel and Carmina Burana — Kazuki Yamada and the Orchestre National de France
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, a high place of Parisian concert life which once shook to the echoes of the scandals and the ovations of…
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Mozart and Bruckner — Emanuel Ax and Myung-Whun Chung at the Concertgebouw
The year 2024 marks the bicentenary of Anton Bruckner’s birth, one of the greatest symphonists of the 19th century. Since the era of Mengelberg…
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Sibelius in Geneva — Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
On January 14, 2024, the Victoria Hall in Geneva was the stage for an exceptional musical event dedicated to Finland, organized by the Migros…
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Schubert and Bruckner — Philippe Jordan and the Orchestre de Paris
For a long time it was the done thing to speak of the “organ sonority” of Bruckner’s symphonies, or of their contrapuntal gigantism inherited…
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Ode to Nature — Daniele Gatti and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
An evening billed as an “Ode to Nature” can only prompt a fundamental reflection, musicological and philosophical, on the expressive possibilities and the suggestive…
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Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns and Rachmaninoff — Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The Victoria Hall in Geneva can proudly claim to have hosted orchestras and conductors of international repute. We still have in our ears and…
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Sibelius, Ligeti and Beethoven — Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Hannu Lintu in Geneva
In the vastness of the classical repertoire, some evenings seem to transcend the mere experience of a concert, touching on something deeper, a place…
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Strauss and Beethoven — Herbert Blomstedt and the Berliner Philharmoniker
« Niemand wird sich selber kennen, Sich von seinem Selbst-Ich trennen; Doch probier’ er jeden Tag, Was nach außen endlich, klar, Was er ist…
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A Concerto Triptych — Emmanuel Pahud and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
It is quite peculiar, even ironic, for a French music lover to have to go to the far reaches of Reykjavik to explore the…
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