Orchestral colors and discovery of Zlatomir Fung in Lille with Lionel Bringuier

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Lille. New Century Auditorium. Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904): Concerto for cello and orchestra in B minor op. 104. Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013): Metabolisms. Albert Roussel (1869-1937): Symphony No. 3 in G minor op. 42. Zlatomir Fung, cello. National Orchestra of Lille, conductor: Lionel Bringuier

For two evenings in front of the ONL, Lionel Bringuier enjoy the cello of the young and already exciting Zlatomir Fung in Dvořák, before delivering energetic symphonic works by Dutilleux and Roussel.

Forced to cancel his next appearances, Truls Mørk gives up his place in Lille to the winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, Zlatomir Fungwhich therefore appears for the first time in France thanks to the cello concerto by Dvorak. Back in front of theNational Orchestra of Lille for a program on The Colors of the Orchestra, Lionel Bringuier accompanies it and does not hesitate to energize the musicians from the introduction, highlighting the superb little harmony as well as the lively strings, carried by the first violin Ayako Tanaka.

After round clarinets to which the bassoon tunes, then a full sound from the violins, a beautiful horn solo introduces Fung, entering with a confident although non-demonstrative gesture, whose aim seems to be quite simply to carry the score as close as possible to the text, without however particularly valuing its Czech expression. Not unlike the young Yo-Yo Ma, in appearance as much as in style, the American of Sino-Bulgarian origin enters Dvořák’s masterpiece with finesse with his magnificent Goffriler cello. Very concentrated, he keeps a real freedom in addition to always listening to the orchestra to adapt to it, before passionate alone for the superb tearful part of theAllegroduring which it never overvalues the vibrato on the fingerboard.

L’Slow, but not too much follows the same line, managing to create a listening of absolute calm in the magnificent acoustics of the New Century, where the public in addition to being silent during the movements, is also silent between them, even when the concluding gestures of the artists could easily lead to applause, which will not arrive until after the very last note of the work. With the same finesse and dexterity always magnificently used, the Finale benefits again and again from the value of the soloist, in addition to finding a very dynamic Lille orchestra thanks to the French conductor, able to bring out the woodwinds again and more particularly the solo flute. An extract of Pirin by Tabakova, in its version for cello, is offered as an encore before the intermission.

Exclusively symphonic, the second part highlights two great French symphonic works and begins with the most played of Henri Dutilleux : ses Metabolisms. Commissioned for the fiftieth anniversary of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and premiered by this formation and George Szell in 1965, the score resembles a concerto for orchestra dedicated to highlighting a different group in each of its parts. Bringuier then took the opportunity to highlight the beautiful woods of Lille, powerful in Incantatorybefore focusing more on strings for Linearon percussion for Obsessive and brass for Torpidethen to maintain a good rhythmic rigor in order to ignite the tutti for Flamboyant.

Now very hot, theLille National Orchestra can pour out in the last piece of the program, also indebted to a commission for the 50th anniversary of an American formation, this time the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Created in 1930 under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, the Symphony No. 3 d’Albert Roussel was engraved by the greatest, from Munch to Boulez via Bernstein, and is one of the favorite works of Lionel Bringuier, of whom there is a video recording of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Also very dynamic and perfect for enhancing an orchestra, the work allows the French colors to be displayed and the perfect adaptation of the Lille ensemble to exalt the music of a composer born a few kilometers away, in the town of Tourcoing. . past theAllegro vivol’Adagio offers ample development to the strings before further emphasizing the quality of the first violin and the woodwinds. the Scherzo then theCheerful with spirit conclude with the same fervor this very beautiful orchestral evening.