| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 21-Mar-2013 Salle Pleyel | Dutilleux, Bartók, Beethoven: Paavo Järvi's night of forgotten masterpieces with the Orchestre de Paris |
 The opening of Henri Dutilleux’s Symphony no. 1, with its distinctive pizzicato opening full of tension and curiosity, opened the concert not with a bang but rather a seductive lure. The gradual building of orchestral forces in the opening movement, demonstrating Dutilleux’s supreme skill in orchestration, was evoked with excellent nuance by the Orchestre de Paris, contrasted with the sultry octave rises in the strings that follow.Read full review... | |
| 15-Jun-2011 Salle Pleyel | Lacklustre Tchaikovsky, but brilliant Thibaudet |
| The programme notes suggested that Glinka was the father of Russian nationalism. Perhaps this is the case, but his overture to his second opera, Ruslan and Ludmilla, is undeniably an Italianate work, surely influenced by his meetings with Donizetti and Bellini in 1830. Although written twelve years later, it still typifies that idiomatically light and breezy style, which is exactly what the Orchestre de Paris found. Read full review... | |
