SIBELIUS FESTIVAL / SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / SIBELIUS HALL / SIBELIUS
The second day of the Lahti Sibelius Festival took us on a musical voyage back in time. It offered a remarkable reconstruction of a…
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SIBELIUS FESTIVAL / LAHTI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / SIBELIUS HALL / SIBELIUS
The Sibelius Festival, under the artistic direction of conductor Dalia Stasevska, annually illuminates the wooded and warm acoustics of the Sibeliustalo, the Sibelius Hall,…
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CONCERT HALL LUCERNE / LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA / HERBERT BLOMSTEDT / BRUCKNER
“More than any other composer, Bruckner excels in the art of musically depicting the infinity of time and space” (Herbert Blomstedt) A cerulean clarity,…
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CONCERT HALL LUCERNE / LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA / MOZART – BRAHMS
Between Maria João Pires and Mozart, it is a story of alchemy and osmosis, we are in the evidence and the natural. But the…
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CONCERT HALL LUCERNE / LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA / MAHLER
« The true paradises are paradises we have lost » (Marcel Proust, Time Regained) The Lucerne Festival is a noble phoenix: figurehead of musical…
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LA GRANGE AU LAC / GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER / BEETHOVEN
What strikes you first is the look of a dacha lost deep in a larch wood that this remarkable hall, the Grange au Lac…
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NABUCCO AT THE GRAND THÉÂTRE DE GENÈVE / VERDI / JATAHY / FOGLIANI
“He wept and loved for all of us” (G. D’Annunzio) Of Nabucco, almost everything seems to have been said: the audience waits for the…
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KONINKLIJK CONCERTGEBOUW AMSTERDAM / BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / MAHLER
Strange place in the work of Gustav Mahler that this Seventh Symphony in E minor, which has always been shunned at the concert, a little…
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MC2 GRENOBLE / LES SIÈCLES / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – STRAVINSKY
On 13 June 1911 the Ballets Russes gave a memorable evening at which Stravinsky’s Petrushka was heard for the first time. Also played that…
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VICTORIA HALL / ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE / TURNAGE – VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Unless I am mistaken, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande had never before interpreted a symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose 150th anniversary of…
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