Press Archive - Lars Vogt

Orchestre de chambre de Paris : Lars Vogt, new Music Director

Lars Vogt has been appointed Music Director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris from 1 July 2020, for a 3-year term in agreement with the City of Paris and the ministry of Culture – Drac Ile-de-France.

With Lars Vogt, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris has appointed a Music Director who is both an outstanding musician and an internationally acclaimed conductor. His presence further strengthens the orchestra’s original artistic approach and its roots in chamber music.

This appointment is the result of a process that was begun more than a year ago by the Board of Directors of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris in constant dialogue with all their musicians. These positive exchanges led to a short list of four candidates including one female conductor on which all the musicians had an advisory vote.

"The soloist in the concerto was German pianist Lars Vogt, playing with finesse and feeling to communicate the deep and vivid joy of Mozart's music with a sound like liquid gold. He's an elegant musician who carefully considers every aspect of the score; it was a pure pleasure to hear him again."

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Bryan Miller, March 3, 2019

"What a taste for contrasts! An album of zestful vitality, exuberance even." [translation from French; CD Beethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Ondine]

— Diapason, Bertrand Boissar, June 2018

"An enjoyable cycle reaches its conclusion in considerable style – the rapport between Lars Vogt and his Northern Sinfonia feels natural and joyous after a rewarding journey." [Gramophone New Best Classical Album May 2018; Beethoven, Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Ondine]

— Gramophone, Richard Osborne, May 2018

"What a taste for contrasts! An album of zestful vitality, exuberance even." [Übersetzung aus dem Französischen; CD Beethoven, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 2 & 4; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Ondine]

— Diapason, Bertrand Boissar, Juni 2018

"An enjoyable cycle reaches its conclusion in considerable style – the rapport between Lars Vogt and his Northern Sinfonia feels natural and joyous after a rewarding journey." [Gramophone Best New Classical Album Mai 2018; Beethoven, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 2 & 4; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Ondine]

— Gramophone, Richard Osborne; Mai 2018

"The delicacy and expressive rubato of the strings’ reply to the soloist at the start of No 4 shows that theirs is a true partnership. Vogt’s direction is as masterly as his playing. I can’t recall a finer account of this celestial work. No 2’s opening movement is a real allegro con brio, and Vogt cleverly integrates Beethoven’s much later cadenza into the style of the rest. A richly satisfying disc." [Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4, Royal Northern Sinfonia, ONDINE]

— The Times, David Cairns, 18.03.2018

"Vogt mapped out the nocturnal slow movement with the predatory tread of something beautiful and dangerous." [Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3; Royal Northern Sinfonia]

— The Guardian, Alfred Hickling, 19.03.17

[…] Das Trio ohne Eigennamen – die Interpreten sind Marke genug – besticht mit dem Mut zum Risiko, mit spielerischer Leidenschaft, die natürlich gepaart ist mit technischer Brillanz. […] klanglich ist das alles von höchster Delikatesse […]das Spiel der beiden Geschwister (zeugt) gerade in den zahlreichen Unisono-Passagen […] von nicht zu überbietender Gemeinsamkeit: zwei Künstler, ein Klang, eine Aussage. Und hier ist es an der Zeit, Lars Vogt ins Rampenlicht zu stellen. Was für ein unglaublich einfühlsamer, kongenialer Tastenzauber, welch sensibler Kammermusiker! […]

— Badische Zeitung, Alexander Dick, 06. April 2017

Vogt verfügt über faszinierende Mittel der musikalischen Rhetorik, so dass man ihn fast als einen Fischer-Dieskau der lyrischen Klavierkunst adeln möchte

— klassik.com, Dr. Hartmut Hein, 19. Oktober 2016