FASCHINATING SJOSTAKOVICH, BEAUTIFUL RIMSKI-KORSAKOV

XAVIER PHILIPS

Xavier Philips, photo: Celine Nieszawer

fascinated the audience with his deep felt interpretation of the solo cello part in Dimitri Shostakovitch Cello concerto number 2. Together with a great Orchestra National de France directed by the conductor TUGAN SOKHIEV. We had the feeling of coming very close to one of the dark periods in Russian History a period with many changes and a very locked community in the then USSR

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. Xavier Philips has this music deep in, as I understood, he was in close connection with Msitislav Rostropovitch for a long period, who premiered this concerto in 1966, a knowledge to this work, which you could feel in this representation has been forwarded to Xavier Philips, it was indeed one of the big cello concerto evenings this year. The orchestra followed up the complicated and dark partitatur and helped to give the masterpiece all the right impressions. The first part is very depressive but in the second and third part I kind of hidden dark happiness and humor is there but at that time, you couldn´t show it, therefore it is still a dark mood.

Xavier Philips, photo: Celine Nieszawer

XAVIER PHILIPS

The applause for Xavier Philips didn´t stop and after many times in and out, he generously gave the encore audience a small Serenade by Benjamin Britten very much in the same kind of mood
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After the break we enjoyed a complete version of Nikolaï Rimsky-Korsakovs beautiful Symphonic suite: “Shéhérazade” , inspired from 1001 Night who just before this piece was being composed in 1888, has been translated by the Englishman Richard Francis Burton, and through that has come to the knowledge of Rimski-Korsakov
. The orchestra under the great leading of Tugan Sokhiev gave us all the impressions of orientalisme, which lays in the work
. The many beautiful violin solos was elegantly played by the concertmaster Luc Héry in addition we enjoyed many very good solo parts in all the orchestra starting with the 1 Bassoon (Fagot) closely followed by the 1 cello, and it continued like that
. The Orchestra National de France has a wonderful sound in the strings which it can be proud of.

As an “ouverture” the orchestra played Alexandre Borodins Dans le Steppes de l´Asie Centrale. Which gave this Thursday concert in Theatre Des Champs Elysees, the right start and the correct atmosphere for an evening with Russian composers, from two periods as written in the program: “From Alexander II to Leonid Breshnjev”.

The Concert was being send directly in Radio, France Musique.