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While Lortie raised all sorts of questions about the relative value of surface brilliance vs. musical profundity, not to mention implicitly posing the Alice in Wonderland question of what Chopin actually composed these studies for if not to be able to play these studies..., the effect was electrifying from the first note to the last.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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Later in the evening, Canadian Louis Lortie threw the audience into total disarray with incendiary readings of both sets of Chopin's Études.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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While Lortie raised all sorts of questions about the relative value of surface brilliance vs. musical profundity, not to mention implicitly posing the Alice in Wonderland question of what Chopin actually composed these studies for if not to be able to play these studies..., the effect was electrifying from the first note to the last.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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Later in the evening, Canadian Louis Lortie threw the audience into total disarray with incendiary readings of both sets of Chopin's Ãtudes.
Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011 Laurence Vittes 2011
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Like Krivine, Lortie is a shaper of sound, physically coaxing out phrases with a nodding head or conducting his right hand with motions of his left, but his playing had a firm clarity that made Krivine seem at times slightly effete.
Krivine leads NSO Anne Midgette 2010
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Arthur Lortie wrote to congratulate Harry Harrison on reaching Mars:
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The first half of the concert opened with just Lortie playing Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, before Dumay joined him for Franck's Violin Sonata inA.
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Arthur Lortie wrote to congratulate Harry Harrison on reaching Mars:
Harry Harrison on Mars! « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008
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The pianist's role is controlling and self-deprecatory, and Lortie was pervasive yet discreet, pulling the other players and us with him into Chausson's bleak world.
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The lineup – Lortie was joined by violinist Augustin Dumay and the Quatuor Ebène – was about as good as it gets for the piece.
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