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November 06 2017

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November 06 2017

Gramophone (UK): Budu in the 50 greatest Chopin recordings

Our journey through the greatest Chopin recordings continues, from Pires in the Nocturnes to Pogorelich in the Scherzos All of the reviews printed below were originally published in Gramophone, the world's leading classical music magazine. To find out more about subscribing, visit: gramophone.co.uk/subscribe Listening to his impressive new rec...


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November 01 2017

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November 01 2017

Audiophile Audition: George Robert, sax – Plays Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand at the movies, on sax. With the passing of George Robert (1960-2016), we have lost a very fine jazz musician and esteemed educator. He played with many of the top big bands, including Lionel Hampton and Phil Woods. A longish stint with Tom Harrell is also a highlight of his discography. Robert is quite a traditional alto stylist ...


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October 24 2017

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October 24 2017

Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. Stanford had conducted its British premiere, with the composer as soloist, the year before he completed his own. If the second and third movements do...


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October 11 2017

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October 11 2017

France Musique: En direct de la Salle Pasteur du Corum de Montpellier, Anaïs Gaudemard (podcast)

Anaïs Gaudemard, 1e prix du Concours international de Harpe, Israël 2012 en direct de la Salle Pasteur, Montpellier 2017 En direct de la Salle Pasteur du Corum de Montpellier, Anaïs Gaudemard, 1er Prix du Concours International de Harpe d'Israël 2012 et 2e Prix du Concours ARD 2016 interprète Scarlatti, Parish-Alvars, Debussy, Charpy, Hindemit...


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October 10 2017

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October 10 2017

Le Nouvelliste: Levinas, Petit Prince de l'opéra

C’est la première fois qu’un compositeur français crée un opéra tiré du «Petit prince» de Saint-Exupéry. Double réussite: scénographique par la complicité que Michaël Levinas suscite entre la salle et la scène, lyrique par la puissance du langage musical, dont la seule version sonore suffit à nourrir l’imaginaire de la représentation. «Au-delà ...


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October 09 2017

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October 09 2017

Audiophile Audition: Brahms - String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major; String Sextet No. 2 in G Major

Recorded 9-11 February 2014, these realizations of the two Brahms string sextets share with us a profound and often melancholy – and contrapuntal – intimacy. The Quatuor Sine Nomine opens with the 1865 G Major Sextet, composed in the spirit of “atonement” for a failed engagement between Brahms and Agathe von Siebold, daughter of a university p...


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October 06 2017

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October 06 2017

Music Web International: Levinas, Le Petit Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s work Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has enchanted and perhaps disturbed its readers, whether young or not so young, since its first appearance in 1943. Voted as the ‘Best Book of the 20th Century’ by the French public it has been animated, turned into ballet, dramatized, made into television and cinematic movies;...


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October 01 2017

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October 01 2017

Tribune de Genève: Le Petit Prince

Si la création à l'Opéra de Lausanne du Petit Prince de Michaël Levinas d'après Saint-Exupéry avait été un vrai enchantement musical et visuel, grâce à la mise en scène épurée de Lilo Baur et à des acteurs-chanteurs convaincants, la publication de l'enregistrement audio (capté à Paris) suscite un sentiment partagé. On retrouve l'extraordinaire ...


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September 22 2017

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September 22 2017

Musica: 5 Stelle for the last album of Benjamin Righetti

« Perché registrare un disco di organo nel 2016 ? Per arricchirsi, per guadagnare denaro? Assolutamente no. Per farsi ascoltare, per esistere nel nostro mondo musicale? Potrebbe essere. Per ascoltarsi, per far germogliare la cultura del proprio giardino interiore? Certamente. » Questa la speculazione con cui Benjamin Righetti apre le note del l...


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September 13 2017

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September 13 2017

Qobuz: Opéra du Petit Prince en français, Michaël Levinas

Curieusement, alors que Le Petit prince est quand même l’un des ouvrages les plus emblématiques de la littérature française, il n’avait jamais servi d’argument pour un opéra en français avant que Michaël Levinas s’en saisisse en 2014. Certes, en russe dès 1964, aux États-Unis en 2003 et en Allemagne cette même année, s’écrivirent des opéras sur...


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