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In Paris, Lugansky and Abduraimov reveal Rachmaninov the poet and the lover

Rachmaninov Week-end: Kochanovsky/ Orchestre de Paris Philharmonie 1, Paris, 28th April 2019 The members of a relay team often have different strengths. For this second Orchestre de Paris leg of the Philharmonie’s Rachmaninov Weekend concerto marathon, Denis Matsuev – who … Continue reading

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Rachmaninov gets a hammering at the hands of Denis Matsuev in Paris

Rachmaninov Week-end: Kochanovsky/ Orchestre de Paris Philharmonie 1, Paris, 27th April 2019 “I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien,” complained Sergei Rachmaninov in a 1939 interview. “I cannot cast out the old way of writing and … Continue reading

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Nights in the Harem: Scheherazade spins her tales with the Orchestre Pasdeloup

Chatoiement Oriental: Orchestre Pasdeloup/Diakun *** Philharmonie, Paris, 20th May 2017 Scheherazade had to spin her tales out for 1001 nights to earn a stay of execution from the Sultan Shahryar’s wicked decree that each new wife shall be killed the … Continue reading

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From the Auvergne to St Petersburg: a travelogue with the Orchestre de Paris

Ravel, Canteloube, Mussorgsky: Orchestre de Paris/Hengelbrock *** Philharmonie de Paris, 18th May 2017 How fluent is your Occitan? Joseph Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne, his arrangement of folksongs from central France, are in the local language, not dissimilar to Catalan. They mostly … Continue reading

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Dancing bear, tame beasts: Insula Orchestra tackles Beethoven

Beethoven: Angelich; Insula/Equilbey *** Philharmonie, Paris, 8th February 2016 Orpheus taming the wild beasts: for years, this description of the slow movement in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto was attributed to Franz Liszt. The strings growl angrily, the solo piano (Orpheus … Continue reading

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