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Exit, Jan 2008
Symfonie Orkest & Collegium Instrumentale Brugense together under one roof
Being brought together under one financial management board has given the Symphony Orchestra (of Flanders) (Symfonieorkest van Vlaanderen) and the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense a new lease of life. During recent months, there has been much anticipation as to what the new chief-conductor of the ‘Collegium’, Ivan Meylemans, would do with the legacy of Patrick Peire. The critics are practically unanimous: the performances are of an extremely high standard. An interview with the CEO and chief- conductor.
Luc Fossaert
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Lippische Landeszeitung, Dec 2007
German début with Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
"Märchenhafte Brillanz"
Bad Salzuflen [...] Die Musiker unternahmen eine Reise durch die Werke Tschaikowskijs. Eine gleitende Reise, die ihr Finale fand im tänzerischen Vergnügen der Ballettsuite und den Anfang machte mit der Fantasie-Ouvertüre "Romeo und Julia". Voll gefühlsbetonter Tragik wurde hier das Drama präsentiert: Die Verbundenheit zwischen Romeo und Julia als sanfter Träger der Gerechtigkeit [...] Der Philharmonie gelang es, eben diese Gegensätzlichkeit zwischen Liebe und Hass, Gut und Böse, Wirklichkeit und Wunsch auf kunstvoll-poetische Weise zu vermitteln.
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Het Nieuwsblad, Dec 2007
"Het is aan ons om het orkest te redden"
Zondagavond speelt het Collegium Instrumentale Brugense onder leiding van de nieuwe dirigent Ivan Meylemans onder meer werk van Benjamin Britten in de Sint-Gilliskerk (Brugge). Het concert luidt een nieuwe start in voor het orkest.
Luc Fossaert |
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Preludium, April 2007
Interview door Henriette Posthuma de Boer |
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Eindhovens Dagblad, October 2, 2006
the Brabant Orchestra, Frits Philips Concert Hall,
Eindhoven
(September 29, 2006)
[…] Als het Brabants Orkest blijft spelen zoals
het dat afgelopen vrijdagavond deed, wordt het een ‘leuk’ seizoen.
Onder leiding van de Belg Ivan Meylemans speelde het
opvallend fris, levendig en alert. Meylemans kwam sympathiek
en duidelijk over, er zaten ruim tachtig uitgeruste musici
op het podium, de vele bezoekers waren een en al welwillend
oor. Waar het ook aan lag, de avond was één
sprankelende, bruisende presentatie van mooie, verrassende,
gevestigde én vernieuwende muziek.
Marjolijn Sengers
[...] If the Brabant Orchestra continues playing as
they did last Friday, it’ll become a very ‘jolly’ season.
Leaded by the Belgian conductor Ivan Meylemans, the orchestra
played strikingly fresh, lively and alert. Meylemans’ impression
was congenial and his conducting technique was very accurate
and clear to lead these more than eighty wide-awake musicians.
The public was very eager to hear more. This evening
was a successful and sparkling presentation of beautiful,
startling, old and new music …
Marjolijn Sengers |
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Flemish Radio Orchestra, Concertgebouw Amsterdam
(October
10, 2005)
Belà Bartok: Suite from the Miraculous Mandarin
(1927)
[...] onder zijn handen was het stuk overweldigend
voor oor en oog door de dynamische contrasten en snelle
sfeerwisselingen. Onheilspellende, snerpende passages
werden vloeiend afgewisseld met een vredige, lyrische
wals. De looptempogang naar de climax bracht een grote
spanning en versnelde hartslag teweeg die zijn verdiende
rustpunt vond in de gigantische eindknal. Alle lof voor
Meylemans en het orkest.
Marina van Dijke
[…] under his baton, this piece was overwhelming
for ears and eyes because of the dynamic contrasts and
fast changes of atmosphere. Ominous, biting passages
were fluently alternated with a peaceful, lyric waltz.
The running pace towards the climax brought about a large
tension and an accelerated pulsation which found its
deserved rest point in the huge end detonation. All praise
for Meylemans and the orchestra.
Marina van Dijke |
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The Classical Source (UK), October 1st 2002
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2002
[ … ] His gestures were textbook, always for
the orchestra and, to my ears, the LSO responded with
the most integrated playing of the evening. This wasn’t
a sensational Mandarin; it was the work of a musician
who knows that Bartók’s illumination of
the sleazy storyline is sufficient in itself. There was
no lack of eerie seductiveness, visceral attack, atmosphere
and textural explicitness. Meylemans, for his musicality
and ’inside’ conducting skills, was for me
the winner – […].
Colin Anderson |
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The Daily Telegraph (UK) October 3, 2002
Donatella
Flick Conducting Competition 2002
Last on to the platform came the Belgian Ivan Meylemans.
[…] the Suite from Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin
[…] It was the one performance of the evening
that felt shaped and finished. Meylemans also had the
most expressive baton manner, one that inspired the LSO
- which could probably play all these works without a
conductor if it needed to - to exhilarating heights in
Bartok's wonderfully lurid, high-powered orchestral writing.
The Belgian would have got my vote.
Matthew Rye
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The Times (UK) October 3, 2002
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2002
So it was with the Belgian hopeful Ivan Meylemans, 31,
[…]. All three finalists trawled through the Marriage
of Figaro overture — not an exercise that separated
the sheep from the goats — then were handed, by
lot, a 20th-century classic. Meylemans had the showiest,
Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin suite, and
he drove it through without mishaps. Lurid, hectic, razor-sharp,
this performance found the LSO at the top of their best
form. Had the prize been in the audience’s gift,
Meylemans would have won handsomely.
Geoff Brown
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The Independent (UK) October 6, 2002
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2002
[…] had there been a clapometer at the end of
his performance or some means of measuring attentive
silence during the course of it, Ivan Meylemans would
have won. […] Meylemans’ Bartok showed bravura,
accuracy, authority, invention and sensitivity; five
out of five to the other two's four and three. Unlike
the others, he kept eye-contact with all sections of
the orchestra, knowing when to encourage and when to
step back.
Anna Picard |
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Music & Vision (USA) October 10, 2002
Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2002
Each of them -- Christophe Mangou, followed by Finnish
conductor Dmitri Slobodeniouk and finally Ivan Meylemans
(joint winner of the competition in Kharkov -- see above)
gave a kind of mini-concert in which the Mozart was followed
by an orchestral showpiece -- Stravinsky's Symphony in
three movements (Mangou), Janácek's Taras Bulba
(Slobodeniouk) and Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin
(Meylemans). The audience's money seemed to be on the
oldest of the three finalists -- plump, curly haired
Meylemans. Arguably, his gestures had more weight than
the other finalists, and he was more flamboyant, more
charismatic.
Copyright © 10 October 2002 Keith Bramich, Arthog,
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