ALTAMUSICA.COM
Si loin des idées reçues
June 28, 2005
Pour ce deuxième concert du Festival de Saint-Denis, l'Orchestre national de France a fait triompher Tchaïkovski chez les rois de France, et Renaud Capuçon s'est imposé au meilleur niveau. Une vision du compositeur russe d'un engagement total, loin de toute guimauve et des plus stupides idées reçues. PLUS...
RESMUSICA.COM
Le chant du crépuscule
June 25, 2005
Depuis 1969, le festival de Saint Denis s'affirme comme un rendez-vous musical incontournable en Ile de France. PLUS...
CLASSICALSOURCE.COM
LPO CDs – Masur Shostakovich
Of the first four releases on the London Philharmonic's own label, this one of Kurt Masur conducting Shostakovich has claims to be the most satisfying... MORE...
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Tu as fait de ma vie un long chant ravissant
May 20, 2005
Bruch et Grieg, ces deux « outsiders » du Romantisme de la fin du XIXe, cachés dans les ombres de Tchaïkovski, Brahms, Bruckner ou Mahler, sont mis en lumière ce soir là. PLUS...
THE INDEPENDENT
LPO/Masur: War Requiem, Royal Festival Hall, London
May 10, 2005
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. All a poet can do is to warn." The words are Wilfred Owen's, inscribed in the score of Britten's War Requiem. Britten's work is not performed often; the numbers required are a deterrent. But it is an irony that it takes the 60th anniversary of VE Day to bring out a 20th-century masterpiece whose message remains constantly relevant. MORE...
VALEURS ACTUELLES
Kurt Masur
April 29, 2005
L'ex-patron de l'Orchestre philharmonique de New York et du Gewandhaus de Leipzig s'achemine vers la fin de sa troisième saison à la tête de l'Orchestre national de France. PLUS...
SAN FANCISCO CHRONICLE
Cellist dazzles in concerto written for her
April 8, 2005
Wednesday's concert by the San Francisco Symphony under guest conductor Kurt Masur introduced not one but two imposing new figures to the local musical scene. One was Alfred Schnittke's First Cello Concerto, and the other was cellist Natalia Gutman, for whom the piece was written in 1986; together they made a dazzling joint debut in Davies Symphony all. MORE...
SAN FANCISCO CHRONICLE
Masur's strudy hand coaxes bold surprises from Mozart
April 1, 2005
When Kurt Masur conducts an orchestra, he makes his presence felt... MORE...
MIAMI HERALD
French orchestra, piano soloist offer evening of elegance, flair
March 10, 2005
The Orchestre National de France is now world class thanks to Kurt Masur, whose conducting helped guest soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet deliver piano magic. MORE...
SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
Kurt Masur shows fine control of French orchestra, Kravis audience
March 5, 2005
It's not unusual to see a phalanx of cars with New York license plates filing into the Kravis Center for events this time of year. Yet the Empire State's seasonal residents were out in even greater numbers than usual Wednesday night for the Orchestre National de France concert led by Kurt Masur. MORE...
BOSTON GLOBE
Masur leads French orchestra in lively concert
March 1, 2005
Kurt Masur made a tumultuous exit from the New York Philharmonic in 2002 after some well-publicized friction with the Philharmonic's board. Anyone who thought that would signal his withdrawal from the music scene was mistaken: The 77-year-old German maestro now directs both the Orchestre National de France and the London Philharmonic, has a slew of guest conducting engagements (he conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April), and generally seems busier than ever. On Sunday, Masur and the French orchestra made their first visit to Boston, showing off an artistic partnership that shows every sign of working beautifully. MORE...
THE STAR-LEDGER
Featured soloist displays his charm
February 28, 2005
Kurt Masur was known as a paragon of core German musical values during his 1991-2002 tenure as the New York Philharmonic's music director. Yet in New Jersey and New York concerts with the Orchestre National de France late last week, audiences were able to see the conductor in another context, one that traded solidity and grandeur for pleasures more lithe and sensuous. MORE...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Scheherazade Tells Tall Tales, Two Ways
February 26, 2005
You expect Rimsky-Korsakov's glittering "Scheherazade," a staple of the orchestral repertory, to turn up regularly on concert programs. But not in two New York concert halls on the same night at the same time, as happened on Thursday. MORE...
RHEINISCHER MERKUR
Dann spielen Chinesen die Neunte
February 24, 2005
KURT MASUR: Der Dirigent über die Misere der deutschen Musikerziehung, das Vorbild Asien und die politischen Probleme in den neuen Ländern. MEHR...
BERLINER ZEITUNG
Das Lächeln des Glücks:
Kurt Masur tritt mit dem Orchestre National de France auf
February 18, 2005
Das Orchestre National de France hat am Mittwoch im Konzerthaus ein Gastspiel mit Symphonien von Mozart und Bruckner gegeben. Das ist doppelt merkwürdig... MEHR...
DER STANDARD
Noten in Muttersprache
Französische Gäste im Konzerthaus
February 17, 2005
Die eindringlichsten Mitteilungen glücken am ehesten, wenn man sich der Muttersprache befleißigt. Dies gilt nicht nur für die Wörter. Dass dies auch nach Noten stimmt, bewies das Orchestre National de France am Dienstag an Werken von Claude Debussy und Maurice Ravel unter seinem Chefdirigenten Kurt Masur im Konzerthaus. MEHR...
KRONENZEITUNG
Konzerthaus: Masur
Farbenzauber aus Paris
February 17, 2005
Klangfarbenzauber pur bescherte das Orchestre National de France unter seinem Chefdirigenten Kurt Masur... MEHR...
AUSTRIA PRESSEAGENTUR
Kurt Masurs zauberhaftes "Bregenzer Meisterkonzert"
Orchestre National de Paris brillierte im Festspielhaus
February 15, 2005
Die musikalischen Geister, die er rief, wusste er wohl zu beherrschen: Das Orchestre National de France unter Chefdirigent Kurt Masur gastierte am gestrigen Montagabend im Festspielhaus Bregenz. MEHR...
KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU
Sindbads Seemannsgarn vollendet weitergesponnen
February 14, 2005
Fehlstart in der Philharmonie: Bis 20 Uhr blieben die Saaltore verriegelt, danach Staus beim Hineinzwängen und ein verstimmtes Publikum - keine Erklärung der Verantwortlichen, geschweige denn eine Entschuldigung... MEHR...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Beethoven and Masur in an Act of Consolation Through Art and Amity
January 3, 2005
The conductor Kurt Masur has an unabashed belief in the power of great music to inspire and comfort us. Sometimes you're tempted to poke gentle fun at this Teutonic maestro's somber conviction that a musical performance must always mean something. But not on Friday night at Avery Fisher Hall when Mr. Masur returned to the podium of the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra he led as music director for 11 years. MORE...
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philharmonic Opens With Somber Undertone
January 1, 2005
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the ultimate paradox: an expression of crowning joy from a deaf composer — a melancholy misfit who at the end of his life created an epic hymn of freedom for all humanity.
It was this work that Leonard Bernstein conducted by the fallen Berlin Wall in 1989, signaling Europe's new freedom.
On Friday, German conductor Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic ushered in the new year with an urgent account of Beethoven's masterpiece. MORE...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Masur Visits, Message and Intensity Intact
December 31, 2004
On a recent afternoon, Kurt Masur stood backstage at Avery Fisher Hall studying an excerpt from the score of "La Mer." The great Toscanini had marked it up, presumably to achieve a more striking effect, but Mr. Masur disagreed. "It's nonsense," he said. "Debussy was a wonderful orchestrator - he didn't need any of this."
The offhand comment captured one of Mr. Masur's musical priorities. MORE...
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Taking a Cue From Pictures, Modern Dance and the Circus
December 30, 2004
The New York Philharmonic's Tuesday night concert at Avery Fisher Hall described what one set of sensory organs can do to another. Nineteenth-century painting was the starting point for Rachmaninoff's "Isle of the Dead" and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." MORE...
LE MONDE
Chostakovitch héroïque
December 4, 2004
Lors de la saison 1976-1977, alors qu'il avait la responsabilité de l'Orchestre du Gewandhaus, Kurt Masur avait joué avec le feu en programmant à Leipzig les quinze symphonies de Dimitri Chostakovitch... PLUS...
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Evgeny Kissin begegnet Beethoven
October 30, 2004
Fast die Hälfte aller Leute, die vor dem Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Stellung bezogen hatten, waren auf der Suche nach Eintrittskarten. Das Konzert war schon seit langem ausverkauft... MEHR...
CONCERTONET.COM
Badinguet
October 30, 2004
Il faut sans doute se résigner à ce que le charisme de certains artistes demeure inexplicable: bouquets portés par des admiratrices, fleurs jetées depuis le premier balcon, Evgueny Kissin, depuis ses débuts précoces sous l'aile protectrice de Karajan, est de ceux qui fascinent le public. PLUS...
RESMUSICA.COM
Intégrale des concertos de Beethoven
October 30, 2004
Soirée de gala au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Le « tout-Paris » est présent, la fine fleur de la critique parisienne est de sortie. PLUS...
DIE WELT
Wo die Liebe hinhaucht, hört man, wie das Gras wächst
October 15, 2004
Kein Taktstock, keine Partitur, nicht einmal ein Dirigentenpult. In bester kapellmeisterlicher Tradition benötigt Kurt Masur nichts außer sich selbst, um ein Orchester souverän durch die Fährnisse zweier sinfonischer Schwergewichte des späten 19. Jahrhunderts zu steuern. MEHR...
HAMBURGER MORGENPOST
Voller Leichtigkeit und Frische
October 15, 2004
Kein Podium, kein Pult, kein Taktstock: Kurt Masur hats nicht nötig, den großen Zampano vor seinem London Philharmonic Orchestra zu markieren... MEHR...
HAMBURGER MORGENPOST
Kurt Masur im Gespräch:
»Meine Botschaft ist Humanismus«
October 11, 2004
Der Dirigent kommt zum Konzert nach Hamburg, kritisiert das deutsche Sparen an der Kultur als »verbrecherisch« MEHR...
RESMUSICA.COM
Festival de Saint-Denis:
Le Bûcher des Vanités
September 27, 2004
D'ordinaire placé fin juin/début juillet, le festival de Saint-Denis a cette année joué les prolongations post-estivales en proposant cette imposante Jeanne au Bûcher. PLUS...
RESMUSICA.COM
Cycle Dimitri Chostakovitch
September 24, 2004
C'est toujours un réel bonheur de voir Kurt Masur diriger l'excellent Orchestre National de France. PLUS...
CONCERTONET.COM
Les sorciers de l'orchestre
September 16, 2004
L'Orchestre national et son directeur musical, Kurt Masur, ouvraient leur saison avec un magnifique cadeau de rentrée: la création française de Correspondances d'Henri Dutilleux. PLUS...
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