2023-07-02 23:00:16
THE MORNING LIST
Subject to cancellations by prefectural decision in the event of urban violence, this week we offer a selection of concerts and festivals scheduled for the first two weeks of July. Classical music in Colmar, contemporary in Cluny, jazz in Couches and Vitrolles, eclecticism at the Thau Festival, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons in Albi and Paris and singer Lana Del Rey at L’Olympia.
A virtuoso gathering of pianists and violinists
Israeli soprano Chen Reiss in Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony No. 4”. FESTIVAL-COLMAR.COM/FR
Freshly promoted to new artistic director of the Colmar Festival, Alain Altinoglu invites his musicians from Frankfurt Radio to accompany the magnificent Alexandre Kantorow in the Concerto pour piano n° 4 of Ludwig van Beethoven before tackling the Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler. Israeli soprano Chen Reiss should send shivers down our spine “the joys of heavenly life” in the final. The maestro, between two pieces by Modeste Moussorgski, will then dialogue with the virtuoso bow of Sergey Khachatryan in the Violin Concerto d’Aram Khatchatourian.
Then it will be the turn of the young Finn Tarmo Peltokoski, newly appointed head of the Orchester national du Capitole de Toulouse, to tackle the Violin Concerto by Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky by the no less talented Swede Daniel Lozakovich. After all these stars of the violin in the sky of Alsace, the Russian iconoclast Grigory Sokolov will be on the keyboard for Henry Purcell and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. M.-A. R.
Colmar Festival, from July 5 to 14. From €7.50 to €110.
The electric blues in majesty
Billy Gibbons concert poster at the Olympia on July 6th. GDP.FR
A week apart, two electric blues stars perform at the Olympia in Paris, Billy Gibbons and Buddy Guy. The two veteran American guitarists cultivate some points in common, in particular more than fifty years of career, without forgetting their common friendship with Jimi Hendrix. If the concert of the farewell tour of the octogenarian bluesman from Louisiana, on July 11, is sold out, there are still places left for the Parisian date on July 6 of Billy Gibbons, the eternal bearded Texan from ZZ Top.
Despite the death in 2021 of his double and bassist Dusty Hill, the 73-year-old singer and guitarist does not seem to want to hang up the gloves. His three excellent solo albums, in a perfect world in 2015, The Big Bad Blues in 2018 and Hardware in 2021, even show a renewed inspiration where his blues sensitivity takes over the boogie rock which made his international reputation with ZZ Top. At his side, drummer John Douglas (Aerosmith) replacing Matt Sorum (ex-Guns N’Roses, The Cult), and left-handed guitarist-bassist Austin Hanks. Just before Bruno Coquatrix’s room, the trio will play on July 5 at the Pause guitar festival in Albi (Tarn), with Queens of The Stone Age and Shaka Ponk in particular. Mrs C
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