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By: Guillaume Kosmicki “Hersant, Bacri and Finzi know how to touch us deeply while proving that our time can still have a touch of this romantic model, while renewing it at the same time. Agnès Pyka and Laurent Wagschal never try to proof something, but they sublimate with as much …

By: Charles-Marie Hulot The two musicians give us a very interesting interpretation in which they do not hesitate to innovate in order to highlight this composition. Whether it is in the nuances, the phrasing or other technical procedures, the artists did not hesitate to give the best of themselves in …

By: Suzanne Canessa This is not a game of comparisons, nor an umpteenth (re) interpretation by the musicians of the Des Équilibres chamber music ensemble. It is rather a rewriting in the footsteps of the founding father and his sonatas for piano and violin. The ensemble can also congratulate itself …

  By: Uwe Krusch French Ensemble Des Equilibres commissioned works from three contemporary composers. Each was to respond to one of the three sonatas for violin and piano by Johannes Brahms. The idea behind this was to build a bridge to easier understanding for the less experienced listeners of contemporary …

By: Le Noise (Jérôme Gillet) ” Three composers, three works but a true unity, supported by a very beautiful interpretation. And on top of that the link with Brahms and his three sonatas composed between 1878 and 1886. This search for a formal balance, rigor and audacity, a search for …

f f f By Sophie Bourdais Is Johannes Brahms, important figure of the German Romanticism, still able to inspire the composers of nowadays? Agnès Pyka, violonist and artistic director of the eclectical ensemble Des Équilibres, should have known already the, positive, answer to that question when she asked the French …

“The instrumentalists’ performance enters these [deeply moving and intense] universes with technical precision and a work on sound which gives the nuances an indescribable finesse. A gem!” – Maryvonne Colombani   Read the whole article in French: Les trois dernières sonates de Weinberg par l’Ensemble des Équilibres Par MARYVONNE COLOMBANI …

“I wanted to create a certain sensitivity towards sonatas for violin and piano […] However, I also find the music [by Weinberg] incredible and it is truely in line with the spirit developped by the ensemble Des Equilibres.” – Agnès Pyka   Read the whole article in French here: Agnès …

The recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s sonatas ends with sonatas 4, 5 and 6, after the first three appeared a year ago. The experienced duo Agnès Pyka and Dimitri Vassilakis, considered to be the smallest configuration of the Des Équilibres Ensemble, took up these works. While the pianist had already convinced …

Weinberg’s first composition as a free man is Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano op. 53. This sonata, is one of the most important in the series and one of the key works of the composer’s entire oeuvre. Sonata n° 5  is dedicated to Dimitri Shostakovich who had the …