The Traverse Players, Isabelle Faust, Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers, Frank Zappa, Morgane Imbeaud, Alcest, Landless

• The Traverse Players
  Traveling Songs
  Popularly inspired Renaissance works by Marc Mauillon (vocals), Christian Rivet (lute and guitar) and Les Joueurs de Traverse (flute).

Richly documented on the works (grouped according to seven themes) and on the instruments used (copies of flutes from the 16th^e century opting for two different tuning forks), this fan-like program (geographical and stylistic) will satisfy lovers of nuanced variations. For example, starting with a very popular song – A young girl – presented in monodic form by Jehan Chardavoine then skillfully counterpointed by Eustache du Caurroy in a series of Five fantasies. Some fifteen composers of historical importance (from Josquin des Prés to Girolamo Frescobaldi via John Dowland) mark out this journey with subtlety. Instrumental, with a flute consort – Les Joueurs de Traverse – which sound like a small organ, and vocal with a singer, Marc Mauillon, alternately a brassy tenor and a shaded baritone. Pierre Gervasoni

• Isabelle Faust
  Benjamin Britten
  Violin concerto. Wake up. Suite for violin and piano op. 6. Two pieces for violin, viola and piano. Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Boris Faust (viola), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jakub Hrusa.

How far will Isabelle Faust venture? After Locatelli, Stravinsky, Berg, Schoenberg, Bartok and Schumann, the German violinist tackles Benjamin Britten with the same joy, whose confidential Violin Concerto (1940) is set in the troubled context of the war. The endearing musician displays the nobility and eloquence of an art whose depth and sobriety, coupled with a sensitivity capable of sudden outbursts or dizzying restraints on the edge of breath, are never found wanting. Fluidity of line, precision of attacks, shimmering play of colors, her allies are musicians from the Bavarian Radio superbly conducted by Jakub Hrusa. Two pieces of chamber music complete the program. After Reveillededicated with humor to a fan of lying in, the violinist, in a duet with the gemstone piano of Alexander Melnikov, devotes herself to pastiches of the Suite op. 6They will be joined by his brother, the violist Boris Faust, for two unpublished early works (recorded as a world premiere) full of fantasy. Marie-Aude Roux

• Wadada Leo Smith et Amina Claudine Myers
  Central Park

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