Thank you very much !

Sure does!

Without wanting to sound like a complete arsehole, I've never understood why this is meant to be amazing. Actors go onstage without their scripts every time. Or perhaps a better comparison would be opera singers, who are both actors and musicians. In any case, if these other kinds of performer can learn their parts, why isn't it expected of a musician? If you've got to go through something a bunch of times, most of it just sort of sinks in without you having to put much conscious effort into "learning" it. Doesn't it?

@@kelvinp.coleman563 There's a lot of nuance in that question. I'm not entirely sure what the turnover between rehearsal and performance is for stage acting, but professional orchestras often only get a week or two of rehearsal on an entire set of music. It's not reasonable to expect a whole orchestra to memorize 2 hours of music in that time. You're talking about not just the notes, but the inflections, stresses, pauses, [de]crescendi, accents, timing, and cues. While a lot of that does exist in theater, most of it is personal; in music, more often than not, everything the musicians are expected to do is literally written down on the sheet. Is this note staccato or was that the next one? Beyond that, the format of music doesn't require memorization (theater does by definition), so the emphasis was more on perfection, not memorization. Speaking as someone with experience in both, I found theater to be far less stressful than solo musical performance, because memorizing my part of a script was always easier than memorizing a whole piece of music. Loved orchestra and jazz, though.

Thank you ! It was such a special moment to play with a soloist as Jonathan ! We tried to do our best to back him. A great moment.

Thanks iMakHugo ! We make the video productions ourselves, so we have to work on the program we played last year... (by the way, the Danzón n°2 is already available :) and then, we'll work on the bassoon concerto. But I can tell you that Sophie's performance is amazing !!

Jonathan Reith

How would that be an offense? Jorgen van Rijen rocks!

Yeah wtf that’s a compliment

That is actually a bad critique. You never want to sound like someone else. On the contrary I find him to be quite different as a french player you notice the definition of sound is quite definitive of french playing. Jorgen on the other side tends to blow more air into his playing feeling less detached but with less edge.