Good news, the duck is still alive! Which duck? The one in Prokofiev’s “Peter and the wolf”, of course! Remember… at the end of the story, the wolf swallow the duck. Then Peter catches the wolf with the help of the bird. After that, Peter and the hunters take the wolf to a zoo in…
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In a galaxy far far away… is Martin Fröst new album, Roots. His quest to “create new programmes which move beyond traditional concert formats” lead him to the roots of classical music, and to his own roots, too. Mission accomplished. Brilliantly. It’s like you were visiting sort of a museum, with alive, animated artworks. You…
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Smartphones have become increasingly popular in the last ten years. They are very useful tools for musicians, making it possible to combine the functions of several devices in a single machine. Here are my favorite apps: Pro Metronome : “The best metronome app. Period.” says the developer on itunes. Well, it’s true. It allows many…
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Designed around four French composers of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, “French Touch” is the debut album of Klarthe Quintet. It was released in October 2015 and if you were looking for a present for a lover of wind instruments, you just found it! Clement Dufour (flute), Marc Lachat (oboe), Julien Chabod (clarinet), Guillaume Bidar…
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Remember Ismail Lumanovski? I discovered him last spring in a video where he played with the “New York Gypsy All Star” balkanic music with amazing energy. He is now in a new partnership with “Inspector Gadje” Brass Band (what a joke!). A series of concerts in the next few days in L.A. and the recording…
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