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[…] two violin concertos by a composer whom history has almost forgotten: Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George – as well as Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ in A major, op.90.This year, in the church of Saanen, the Festival will be offering a special concert for local children: ‘Des malheurs de Sophie’ on January 31 at 10am starring French actress, scriptwriter, director and singer Agnès Jaoui as narrator and a French pianist well versed in this genre, Claire-Marie Le Guay.Juan Diego Flórez, Gidon Kremer, Maria João Pires, Emmanuel Pahud, Renaud Capuçon and many more internationally renowned virtuosos look forward to seeing you from January 28 to February 5, 2022.Programme, tickets and advance sales: https://www.sommets-musicaux.ch/For more information, visit https://mcusercontent.com/f5d6ab4a8eb4f88e5a24c94ac/files/41650cfb-3da4-3fe0-b34f-b109e9e339e1/CP_Gstaad_2022_ENG.pdfAlexandra Egli, Music PlanetJessica Meyer: "Through Which We Flow"Happy Holidays from Experiential Orchestra (EXO).In gratitude to all of our supporters who have made our 2021 programs possible, we are excited to share this video of our […]
2018-09-13 09:29:00
I'm picking up good vibrations
There is no doubt that classical concerts are becoming noisier. Concert recordings from the past, e.g. Sir Adrian Boult's Elgar First Symphony at a 1976 Prom - which I attended - or Bruno Maderna's 1971 Festival Hall Mahler Nine - I was at his subsequent Proms performance - with their quiescent audiences provide a stark contrast to the BBC Radio 3 relays of this year's Proms. Not only do we now have the the mindless dribbles of applause between movements, but coughing and other noises off have become de rigeur during the music as well as between it. Not to mention the frantic outbursts by Radio 3's talking heads immediately before and after the music. And on occasions, there are even contributions from mobile phones.A useful perspective on the balance between the music and the audience is provided in the French Canadian sitar player and teacher Michel Guay's memoir Devenir […]
2018-09-04 08:48:00
Finding music within the sound of silence
In his French-language memoir Devenir Invincible Michel Guay writes of India that "In this confluence of cultures and history, I finally found my own narrative". Born in Halifax, Canada in 1961, Michel Guay left home at sixteen to travel the world. His travels took him to India, where he studied sitar and voice with distinguished teachers in Varanasi for ten years. He is now based in Paris where he teaches, and his album Song of Benares, recorded with tabla master and Jordi Savall sideman Prabhu Edouard, featured here in 2013. In his memoir Michel Guay lists Paul Horn Oregon, and Jean-Luc Ponty among his early musical influences; which makes it my kind of book. But Devenir Invincible is far more than a rites of passage chronicle. It is the priceless story of an artist's exploration of the path leading from Āhat Nāda - audible sound - to Anāhat […]
2018-03-23 21:40:41
On this recording, we hear the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, as well as a wonderful collection of Lieder for voice and piano, as arranged for Cello and piano. The selections contain the following and much more: Schubert: Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821 Claire-Marie Le Guay (soloist), François Salque (soloist) I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Allegretto Schubert: Ständchen ‘Leise flehen meine Lieder’, D957 No. 4 Schubert: Der Müller und der Bach (No. 19 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795) Schubert: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343 The French pianist, Claire-Marie Le Guay, began playing piano at age 4 and entered the
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