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- L'Est Républicain
- 2004-06-24
- Music invited at Court ! Francis Duroy, a violinist of international renown, artistic director of “Festival Musicalta” taking place currently, was invited to play in the impressive Court Hall of Nancy. No wonder if the audience greeted his performance with enthusiasm...
- Sélection disques Pianiste
- 2001-07-08
- In the violin and piano Sonata recorded here, Charles Koechlin writing is precise and emphasis free. The final refinement and balance are a disimulated tribut to Gabriel Fauré. The quintet 's dark and grave athmosphere evoke Schoenberg's « nuit transfigurée », nothing less. Francis Duroy, Charles' Koechlin CD interpreter.
- Le Monde de la Musique
- 2001-04-20
- Real qualities, good focusing, sensibility, certain inflexion temperancy. Francis Duroy, Charles' Koechlin CD interpreter.
- Piano Magazine
- 2001-02-15
- The musicians take the right path, they restore perfectly well the fantastic and fairytale accents in the piano and violin Sonata, formulating the quintet murmurs and non-tonal cries with refinement. A performance that does Koechlin's genius justice.
- Francis Duroy, Charles' Koechlin CD interpreter.
- Répertoire
- 2001-01-13
- The musiciens in this recording (Jean Pierre Sabouret and Francis Duroy, violins – Stéphane Marcel, viola and Philippe Bary, cello - Thierry Rosbach, piano) supply great mastery to both works and real musical sensibility.
- Francis Duroy, Charles' Koechlin CD interpreter.
- M Lyon N°5
- 2000-10-10
- The violin sonata takes us to the world of spell and tales that evoke our childhood, with their troop of fairies and goblins dancing to the moonlight of the magical forest. Francis Duroy and Thierry Rosbach involve themselves with devotion into this elegant and refined work. We can feel this CD is the result of a common passion to the 5 musicians who are the masters of the work.
- Francis Duroy, Charles' Koechlin CD interpreter.
- L’Alsace
- 2000-07-20
- Childhood revisited. Francis Duroy was able to sustain the exhausting leading role throughout the rich concert of Thursday, at the Church of Trois-Epis... Koechlin’s Sonata for violin and piano (1916) was wonderfully performed by Francis Duroy and J-M. Cottet. Obviously Francis Duroy feels at home in Koechlin’s world. Just before the final outbursts of the grand crescendo at the end, his instrument develops bewitchingly sweet and wistful tones which entice the audience into the composer’s fairy land; and the Sonata quietly goes its way, like a child playing in the middle of dream trees and fresh brooks...
- Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace
- 1997-07-23
- Mendelssohn and Vérin. (...) Nicolas Verin's work, Chassé Croisé III, composed for two violins – Francis Duroy and Nathalie Geoffray – was on the contrary a great succes in devotion and sound balance matters. Not even a tension fall in this weird work haunted by the glissandi, a hunting sometimes taking the appearence of a rythmic chase with a never weakening energy.
- L'Alsace
- 1996-11-23
- J.M. Cottet, pianist, and Francis Duroy, violinist, offered a superb performance for the final concert of the “Musicalta’s” 1996 Season. It was a particularly ambitious pogramme...perfectly achieved. The more so in Debussy’s superb and rich Sonata Nr 3, his swan song, as well as in Franck’s Sonata, when the two artists fully developed both their deepest-felt and most striking musical qualities... Francis Duroy draws incredibly dense sounds from his violin... Their performance struck a wonderful note among the bewitched audience....
- L'Alsace
- 1996-07-23
- BACH : The well-played Violin ! For the young but very ambitious festival “Musicalta”, Francis Duroy has revisited one of the most impressive monuments of violinistic literature, showing his skill in the Second Concert when he played Bach’s awe inspiring Sonatas and Partitas for violin Solo. His luminous sonority conjures up the melodic outline with uncommon elegance...
- Le Courrier Français
- 1993-08-13
- Spring in Summer with “Les Archets de Paris”. “Les Archets de Paris” were due to perform Mozart and his “Petite musique de nuit”, Pachelbel’s Canon, and the whole of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Francis Duroy as Violin Solo and Conductor. The audience greeted the delicate performance with enthusiasm. Led by the violin solo, the Four Seasons developed unsuspected strains and a new vigour. All the musicians vibrated in a same bliss and harmony...