« Enluminures » nouveau disque de Akhtamar Quartet

Pour son second opus, le quatuor Akhtamar aborde un incontournable du répertoire, le quatuor à cordes en sol mineur op.10 de Claude Debussy, majestueuse œuvre poétique, riche en couleurs et en tonalités exotiques, qui se libère des règles musicales traditionnelles de l’occident. Judith Adler de Oliveira revisite, avec sa suite […]

« Homage to Jan Kubelik » – Pavel Sporcl’s new CD

Pavel Sporcl’s records long-lost violin concerto by forgotten violinist  Jan Kubelik in « Homage To Jan Kubelik’ with Prague Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Tomas Brauner.  It comprises the world premiere recording of Jan Kubelik’s Violin Concerto No.1 and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Violinist-composer Jan Kubelik, father of the conductor Rafael Kubelik, was one of […]

Ingmar Lazar and Giuseppe Gibboni in Milano and Roma

Ingmar Lazar and Giuseppe Gibboni will play again together in Sala Verdi in Milano, as part of the season of the Serate Musicali Sala Verdi del Conservatorio di Milano on march 28th and in Roma, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti https://www.concertiiuc.it/ on march 29th.

MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and Pavel Šporcl

« Out of this world…It has been a long time since the audience were as enthusiastic as at this concert…the Czech star violinist Pavel Sporcl tore the audience from their seats, cheering…at the cadence of the first movement you could hear a pin drop…the audience were so under his spell, then […]

Sasa Mirkovic in Lodz

March 18th, Sasa Mirkovic will perform Bairdov’s « Concerto Lugubre » under Vincent Kozlovsky and Lodz Philharmonic!

Benjamin Herzl & Ingmar Lazar au festival Le Bruit qui Pense

Le 18 mars à Louveciennes, Benjamin Herzl (violon) et Ingmar Lazar (piano); Marc Phalippou (modération) joueront Debussy, Enesco, Mozart, Schumann, Dietrich et Brahms à l’occasion de l’ouverture du festival. Pour en savoir plus Le Bruit qui pense

Ingmar Lazar Mastery, Simplicity and Beauty…

Some masterly playing from Ingmar Lazar with simplicity and remarkable musicianship he allowed the music to speak for itself with a luminosity of sound and technical mastery that was never allowed to intrude on the architectural music line.I was reminded of the same sound of Gelber many years ago when […]

Pavel Sporcl’s « Paganiniana » in « theartsdesk »

… the Caprice No. 24, performed with a lightness of touch, Šporcl’s flexibility of tempo making the piece sound as if it’s being improvised. To read more click here Read Pavel Šporcl’a First Person for theartsdesk on Paganini and the Czech tradition