2023-04-25 17:30:06
Five generations of artists and over one hundred and twenty musicians have already taken part in the Deauville Easter Festival since 1997, including the 27e edition is held until Sunday, May 7. The founder of the event, Yves Petit de Voize, believes that it takes five years to train a young artist in the great repertoire of chamber music. And he always counted on the violinists.
Under the patronage of Augustin Dumay, there was first the “pioneer” Renaud Capuçon, whose career followed the upward spiral that we know, followed by Amaury Coeytaux, talented first violin of the Modigliani Quartet, then by Julien Chauvin, now at the head of his Concert de la Loge, finally Pierre Fouchenneret and the young Shuichi Okada, member of the Trio Arnold. The last two are associated with the Singer-Polignac Foundation, a major partner of the festival and provider, like the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, of the important musical pool that arrives in Normandy each year.
Two young blonde women appear at the bow of the first concert in the hemicycle of the Elie-de-Brignac − Arqana hall. Distinguished by the last Victories of Classical Music in the instrumental soloist revelation category, the Toulousian Manon Galy, who leads the Quartet for piano and strings No. 1, by Gabriel Fauré, is no longer completely unknown. The violinist can count on the piano of Guillaume Bellom, as precious in the mesh of the polyphonic flow as it is impressive in the solo breakaways.
But it is the Danish Anna Egholm who creates the sensation from the masterful bow stroke which opens the tragic Quintet for piano, violins, viola and cello, by César Franck, composed in the feverish and passionate line of German romanticism. Natural authority, ease, expressiveness, the musician’s palette deploys an abundant arsenal of shades and colors, revealing seductive boldness and an exciting dramaturgical intelligence.
Generational impregnation
Renaud Capuçon traveled from Deauville, between Dortmund (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland), to honor his friend and partner, the late pianist Nicholas Angelich, who died prematurely on April 18, 2022, at the age of 51. Like him, the American pianist experienced the very beginnings of the festival. The concert is entirely devoted to Brahms, “probably the composer to whom Nicholas has always felt closest”recalls Capuçon, before emphasizing all that this great Brahmsian brought him, particularly in the Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, which he performs, Monday, April 24, with Guillaume Bellom, a former pupil of Nicholas Angelich, who was still hesitating between violin and piano studies carried out at the same time.
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