The triumph of the bows, the Ukrainian anthem... A look back at the 29th Victories for Classical Music

In anticipation of the approaching anniversary edition, Les Victoires de la Musique Classique wanted to breathe new life into this 29th meeting.

Finished,

de Ravel in opening.

The students of the National School of Dance in Marseille led, among others, by the star dancer Germain Louvet, launch the beginning of the ceremony on the famous 4th movement of the

by Dvorak.

Break dancing mixes with classical.

The host Stéphane Bern, who left the bow tie in the locker room, repeats to anyone who will listen that it is, it has become an antiphon, an event for

.

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The evening takes place in the Grand Théâtre d'Aix-en-Provence.

Clever video panels, reminiscent of opera, adorn the stage.

We feel a little less on television, a little more at the concert.

The conductor Ariane Matiakh holds the baton in front of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nice who came as a neighbor.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott gets down to a concerto by Grieg.

It will have been heard up to the top of the Sainte-Victoire mountain.

Guests and candidates follow one another on stage.

The jury (350 voters from the world of music) will no doubt have struggled to decide among the candidates in the “lyrical art” category, which included the talented mezzo-soprano Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur and

(it was she who left with the reward).

Each winner receives loud applause from their contestants each time.

We pass on the (false) note of humor brought to the evening by the Belgian humorist Alex Vizorek.

wins and inaugurates the new category “revelation conductor”.

Winner of the International Competition for Opera Conductors organized by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in 2017, he engraved a remarkable

in 2021. In the recording category, the victory goes to the organist and composer Thierry Escaich, for

.

Oratorio which had already earned the person concerned the award for "best composer" in 2017.

Several tributes offer breaths to the virtuoso Stéphane Bern who almost runs out of steam playing the teleprompter.

Frédéric Lodéon, first.

The cellist, present in the room, has cornered seventeen editions of Victories.

Images of the great pianist Nelson Freire, who died last November, also appear on the screen.

International news slips into the evening thanks to a speech by Ariane Matiakh.

The Ukrainian-born chef begins by castigating the painful invasion that Kiev or Mariupol are undergoing.

Then recalls, rightly, that Russian artists and repertoire should not, however, suffer censorship:

,” railed conductor Tugan Sokhiev last week, who resigned from his post as musical director of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the National Orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse.

The phalanx of Victories then interprets The Ukrainian anthem.

The audience stands up.

Manon Galy

wins the “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” category.

The violin had deserted her since 2000 and the victory of Renaud Capuçon.

The young woman of 26 years has also, this Wednesday evening, played with the most active musician of the small screen the 3rd movement of the

by Bach.

Another moment of emotion: the Youkali, excerpt from

by Kurt Weill, by the soprano Barbara Hannigan.

Baritone

, absent, wins the V-shaped award in the “Lyrical Artist” category.

In that of the “best composer”, the Finnish

is crowned for

, opera in nine languages ​​created at the last Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence.

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is a thriller"

Unprecedented thing, two artists triumph ex aequo as "instrumental soloist".

Two leading cellists:

and

.

The first had moreover been elected in the “revelation” category in 2002. She played with the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne, Greater Montreal and the State Orchestra of Moscow.

The second, a very great artist who is pursuing an international career, has just recorded Ravel's

with Patricia Kopatchinskaja .