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2022-02-10 15:28:58
Today we discovered a wonderful classical composition! Nostalgia by Raynald Grenier Check it out, yo
2022-01-13 18:53:19
Today we discovered a wonderful classical composition! Dolci momenti by Raynald Grenier Check it out
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-03-24 10:32:42
Ensemble leader, 39, commits suicide amid Covid cancellations
The noted French harpsichordist François Grenier died last week at the age of 39, reportedly by his own hand. The cellist Claire Lamquet, his co-director at the innovative Hemiolia ensemble, writes that he could no longer bear the Covid-era concert cancellations and the uncertain future beyond. She writes in La lettre du musicien: With the pandemic […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-27 20:23:03
FCM Spreads Glorious Table
[…] a little truculent, it does capture a sense of the work’s extremity and excess. I think Turangalîla is a masterpiece, a towering achievement; but I can’t say it is always in good taste. I’m very happy to report that this rare, precious experience was thrilling, ecstatic, ravishing and not excessively concerned with good behavior. The orchestra of Tanglewood Center Music fellows, plus the heroic piano soloist George Xiaoyuan Fu and feature ondes martenot player Genevieve Grenier, all directed by Stefan Asbury, provided the me with 60 of the most entertaining, moving and purely joyful minutes of my listening career. The joke, of course, is that Turangalîla runs more like 80 minutes. The languors and dead stretches were equally attributable to orchestra and composer. Of the ten movements in this work, the hardest nut to crack is probably the eighth movement, the “Developpement de l’amour.” Up until then there has been […]
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