In his excellent booklet essay for the new Le Palais des Dégustateurs recording Chopin Brahms CD featuring violist Ettore Causa and pianist Boris Berman (lepalaisdesdegustateurs.com) Paul Berry suggests that by ignoring arrangements and transcriptions in favour of precisely executed original works modern practice inadvertently eliminates an essential element of reimagination . Successful transcriptions need no […]

Since its founding in 2006, Quatuor Béla have been touted as the enfants terrible of French string quartets. In addition to a commitment to traditional quartet repertoire they specialize in the most significant quartets of the 20th century and have been instrumental in the continuing development of the genre commissioning and performing works by Saariaho, […]

e 4 septembre 2024 par Jean-Claude Hulot La direction d’orchestre donne parfois naissance à des personnalités hors normes. Dans les années 1980, le chef argentin Carlos Païta avait réalisé quelques gravures des grandes pages du répertoire romantique (Berlioz, Bruckner, Mahler, Verdi notamment) marquées par un sens du spectaculaire assez ébouriffant. On est heureux de le […]