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MICHEL PLASSON
at the TEATRO REAL OF MADRID on 16th, 20th and 26 December 2014
Michel Plasson will conduct Romeo and Juliet of Gounod. Sonya Yoncheva and Roberto Alagna in the lead role.
YUTAKA SADO
at the UNESCO on March 11th 2012 for a solidarity concert
Yutaka Sado will conduct the Super Kids Orchestra (orchestra composed with Japanese kids musicians), and the Orchestre JAPONAIDE (orchestra composed by some volunteer musicians from the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre Colonne, the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, etc.) on March 11th at the Unesco in Paris. This solidarity concert, first anniversary of the Earthquake, will be in support for the Tsunami’s victims. The Super Kids Orchestra will also give a concert at the Cathédrale Notre Dame on March 9th after a mess for the Tsunami’s victims. There will be a photo exposition on the Tsunami on March 11th outside the Hall 1 at the Unesco.
Yutaka Sado dirigera le Super Kids Orchestra (un orchestre composé de jeunes musiciens japonais) et l’Orchestre JAPONAIDE (un orchestre composé de musiciens bénévoles venant de l’Orchestre National de France, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris, l’Orchestre Lamoureux, l’Orchestre Colonne, l’Ensemble orchestral de Paris, le New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, etc.) le 11 Mars à l’Unesco à Paris. Ce concert de solidarité, un an après le tremblement de terre, sera en soutien aux victimes du Tsunami. Le Super Kids Orchestra donnera également un concert à la Cathédrale Notre Dame le 9 Mars après une messe pour les sinistrés du Tsunami. Il y aura également une exposition photo sur le Tsunami le 11 Mars à l’extérieur de la Salle 1 de l’Unesco.
Concert le 11 Mars 2012 à 15h00 à la salle 1 à l'UNESCO (Entrée par le 125 Avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris)
Program
J.S. Bach, « Air sur la Corde de Sol »
Chopin, « Romance » de Concerto pour piano no 1
Beethoven, Ouverture « Egmont » *
Tchaïkovsky, Concerto pour violon
Ravel, Boléro
MICHEL PLASSON
Michel Plasson will conduct the China National Symphony Orchestra on March 17th, 2011 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing
Program:
Debussy "Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune"
Gounod "Symphonie n°1"
Ravel "Rapsodie espagnole" and "Daphnis et Chloé – Suite n°2"
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He will conduct also the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra on March 23th, 2011 at the Concert Hall in the Seoul Arts Center
program: Roussel, Elgar, Franck
CHOPIN : the last release of OLIVIER CHARLIR, ANTOINE PIERLOT & ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA
Deux œuvres rares de Chopin enregistrées aux Flâneries
Publié le dimanche 22 janvier 2012 à 11H00 / L'Union
Souvenez-vous. Eté 2010, les Flâneries musicales programment une série Chopin au Manège de Reims.
Le concert qu'y donnent Olivier Charlier, Abdel Rahman El Bacha et Antoine Pierlot est un bijou. Dans la salle comble, le trio communie si bien que le public lui fait un triomphe. Le souvenir de ce moment unique est désormais gravé dans un enregistrement sorti en ce début d'année par Transart Live, le label fondé par l'ancien programmateur des Flâneries, Hervé Corre de Valmalète. L'occasion d'apprécier à nouveau ou de découvrir deux œuvres rares du compositeur romantique. Des œuvres qui marquent le début et la fin de sa vie. La sonate pour violoncelle et piano, opus 65, est sans doute la dernière pièce écrite par Frédéric Chopin. Tout au moins la dernière publiée de son vivant. Le trio pour violon, violoncelle et piano, opus 8, au contraire, est une œuvre de jeunesse. Le pianiste émérite en signe la partition alors qu'il n'a que 19 ans. En dehors des œuvres avec orchestre, elle constituera sa seule pièce écrite pour le violon. Aux Flâneries de Reims, c'est Olivier Charlier qui l'interprète. Le brillant violoniste raconte volontiers comment ce trio a bien failli échapper à son répertoire. « Dans une lettre, Chopin se demande s'il n'aurait pas dû utiliser plutôt l'alto à la place du violon pour mieux s'harmoniser avec le violoncelle ! » Fort heureusement, le compositeur a maintenu son choix initial. Autour de l'immense Abdel Rahman El Bacha au clavier d'ivoire, le violoniste Olivier Charlier témoigne une nouvelle fois de son talent à magnifier les œuvres méconnues. Quant à Antoine Pierlot, le talentueux violoncelliste déjà remarqué en 2009 à Reims par son interprétation des Suites de Bach, il confie que « ce concert restera comme un moment très riche, un moment d'échange intense, les micros ajoutant leur pointe d'adrénaline ». Cette intensité, l'incroyable connivence entre les musiciens et la puissance qu'ils donnent à la musique de chambre de Chopin sont quelques-uns des arguments qui doivent vous mener tout droit chez votre disquaire.
Success for YUTAKA SADO with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande on January 9th 2012 at the Victoria Hall
Tribune de Genève - 11.01.2012, Sylvie Bonier
Concert de l'An des amis de l'OSR
Les soeurs Labèque et Yutaka Sado
*****
Brillante célébration en bleu-blanc-rouge au Victoria Hall
Il y avait une tour Eiffel et de grands cercles suspendus au plafond. Le tout en fleurs, évidemment, conformément à la tradition décorative du Concert de l'An des amis de l'OSR. La thématique était ainsi claire: le programme serait 100% français,
accompagné dans son développement musical par des illuminations sur lesdits supports floraux blancs. Il y en eut ainsi pour les yeux et pour les oreilles. Et ce fut donc la fête, lundi soir au Victoria Hall. D'autant que le chef Yutaka Sado et les soeurs Labèque étaient chargés d'animer une soirée placée sous le signe, l'esprit, le style et la musicalité issus de l'Hexagone de la fin du XIXe, et du début du XXe siècle.
Un régal assuré pour les nombreux spectateurs venus au rendez-vous, qui ne se sont pas fait prier pour se manifester chaleureusement après l'ultime Boléro de Maurice Ravel, donné en conclusion de soirée, et repris en bis dans sa partie finale.
Du murmure au cataclysme sonore, le chef contrôle avec facilité la fabuleuse montée en puissance du thème obsédant, repris par tous les pupitres jusqu'à l'explosion finale. Et les musiciens de naviguer entre finesse et violence avec une parfaite maîtrise du sens imprimé. Belle lecture, sans concession ni effets, efficace et redoutablement menée en issue de concert.
Comme il fallait ouvrir les feux dans l'économie, c'est le Divertissement de Jacques Ibert qui a fait office d'apéritif encore un peu tiède, avant les bouillonnants extraits des Suites de Carmen de Bizet, et le délicieux et trop rare Concerto pour deux pianos de Francis Poulenc.
Aux claviers, la pétulante Katia, lunettes noires de star pour raison de vilaine conjonctivite, et Marielle, l'équilibre du duo. Avec le temps, les deux soeurs s'habillent, se coiffent et se présentent de plus en plus comme des jumelles. Leur jeu, lui, ne trompe pas. Chacune son tempérament, sa sensibilité et son expérience. Même si la technique peut sembler identique, le toucher et l'approche ne peuvent qu'être personnels, et, les yeux fermés, le jeu des différences révèle ses évidences. Un rien de dureté parfois dans les attaques, mais de la liberté. à deux. à profusion..
NEMANJA RADULOVIC
The 5 Seasons CD : Choc of Classica
NEMANJA RADULOVIC
Awards
NEMANJA RADULOVIC
5 Diapasons for his "5 Seasons" !
BRUNO LEONARDO GELBER
"THE 5 SEASONS" of Nemanja Radulovic
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ABDEL RAHMAN EL BACHA will play in Sion, Théâtre de Valère, on the 6th of December
Mozart Sonate en ré majeur K 284
Beethoven Sonate quasi una Fantasia en ut # mineur op 27 no 2 (Clair de Lune)
Schubert Impromptu en si b majeur D 935 no 3 / Impromptu en mi b majeur D 899 no 2
Chopin Fantaisie en fa mineur op 49 / Berceuse en ré b majeur op 57 / Polonaise en la b majeur op 53 (Héroïque)
After the recently great succes in Spain with Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga under the baton of M° Edmon Colomer (Beethoven Concerto No.4), Abdel Rahman El Bacha will receive the prestigious BIAF Award (Beirut International Award Festival) on 27th of November.
CRÍTICA DE MÚSICA
22.11.11 - MANUEL DEL CAMPO
BUEN BEETHOVEN
El monográfico Beethoven -la obertura 'Coriolano', el 'Concierto nº 4 en sol mayor' para piano orquesta y la 'Séptima Sinfonía en la mayor'- sexto de los conciertos de abono de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga en el Teatro Cervantes, tuvo una gran acogida por parte del público hasta el punto de llenar la sala el viernes. Y la realidad es que los gustos de nuestro público van por el repertorio más conocido y tradicional y se aleja de otros programas más actuales y novedosos, criticados por la mayoría de los aficionados locales. Unanimidad en la favorable acogida al todo Beethoven, que tuvo una correcta lectura de 'Coriolano' a la que siguió el 'Concierto nº 4' del que fue solista al piano el franco/libanés Abdel Rahman El Bacha. Sonido claro el suyo, mesura, preciso mecanismo y sin grandes arrebatos -ni falta que hacían- que tuvo la colaboración atenta de los profesores de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga y la ajustada batuta del director titular y artístico de la misma, maestro Edmon Colomer. Como bis a solo, El Bacha tocó una pieza de sabor andaluz, con armonías y cadencias familiares a nuestros oídos -podría recordar a un incipiente 'prealbéniz'- de la propia 'cosecha' del pianista, que fue muy aplaudida. En la segunda parte, la 'Séptima' con el 'allegretto' tal vez con excesivo protagonismo de las cuerdas graves, impresionante línea rítmica del 'Presto' y un gran impulso, sin decaer el movimiento del 'Allegro con brío' final. Muy aclamados. Todo un éxito.
NEMANJA RADULOVIC plays Tchaikovsky,
marvellous Press Article in the Muenstersche Zeitung 15.11.2011
MARCELA ROGGERI
new CD release : Padre Antonio Soler "Fandango and Sonatas" by Transart Live
L'Education Musicale décembre 2011
Un très bel enregistrement live, capté lors d’un concert au Grand Théâtre de Reims, dans le cadre des Flâneries musicales (2006). Un joli programme qui associe le Fandango, découvert en 1960, et treize sonates choisies parmi les deux cents sonates composées par le moine de la communauté hiéronymite de San Lorenzo de l’Escurial. Une musique ensorcelante, sensuelle et effrénée, mais également virtuose et mélancolique. Une belle interprétation, pleine d’allant qui incite à la danse.
BRUNO LEONARDO GELBER has joined Valmalete Swiss for his representation in Switzerland
Of Austrian and French-Italian origin, Bruno Leonardo Gelber was born in Argentina to musical parents and was introduced to the piano at the age of three and a half by his mother, who then remained his most important musical influence.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber made his first public appearance in Argentina at the age of five and when he was six he began to study with Vincenzo Scaramuzza. A year later Bruno Leonardo Gelber suffered a severe polio attack which completely confined him to bed for more than twelve months. But as music was the most important part of his life his parents had the family piano adjusted so that it could slide above his bed so the young Gelber could continue to practise.
By the age of fifteen, having played the Schumann concerto under Lorin Maazel, Bruno Leonardo Gelber had become a household name in South America. At the age of nineteen, he was given a grant by the French government which enabled him to travel to Paris and study. Marguerite Long heard him play there and she declared that he would be her last pupil, but that he would undoubtedly be her finest. Encouraged by Marguerite Long to present himself at her competition, he obtained third place which caused an uproar by the public and press who acclaimed him triumphant
In Europe it was to be the beginning of an immense international career which led Bruno Leonardo Gelber to perform extensively in recital as well as with orchestra.... altogether he has given more than 4600 concerts.
Patrons of his early concerts were personalities such as Ernest Ansermet, Rudolph Kempe, George Szell, Joseph Krips, Kyril Kondrachine, Alceo Galliera, Joseph Keilbert, Antal Dorati.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber has also played under the direction of conductors such as Ferdinand Leitner, Klaus Tennstedt, Eric Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Riccardo Chailly, Christophe Eschenbach, Esa-Pekka Salonen amongst others. He has also performed with renowned orchestras and institutions such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Musikverein, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, l’Orchestre de Montreal, Philadelphia Orchestra, N.H.K. Tokyo, l’Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic.
He has also performed at La Scala Milan, and at the Salzburg, Granada, Aix-en-Provence, Lucerne and Zurich Festivals. In the United States he has played with Stanford Festival and the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras among others and an appearance at Carnegie Hall was highly acclaimed by the critic Schoenberg.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber has toured Australia with huge success and continues to tour extensively. Engagements have led him not only to Europe (Berlin, Paris, Athens, Vienna, London, Germany, Italy...) but as usual in the United States and also in Russia where he played under Vladimir Spivakov conducting his orchestra in Moscow at the Tchaïkovsky Conservatory but also in Saint Petersburg with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov. In May 2008, Bruno Leonardo Gelber will tour for 3 weeks in Japan at the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his first tour in this country.
Bruno Leonardo Gelber's recordings, all of which have been universally acclaimed, have won several prestigious awards including the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros and le Prix de l'Académie de Paris. His recordings for EMI include a remarkable recording of both Brahms Piano Concertos, the Third and Fifth Beethoven Piano Concertos, and a recording of romantic sonatas. The earlier recordings for Denon of the Beethoven Sonatas were recognised by the New York Times as one of the best recordings of 1989. Of the four Beethoven discs currently available, CD Review Magazine wrote ... quite simply the finest I have ever heard ... I could eulogise about the rest but there is no need; THIS IS A PIANIST IN A MILLION. All in all, four CDs to really listen to and talk about.
Transart Live has published the piano concerto N° 3 by Rachmaninov recorded in concert in Lugano and EMI Classics has released in the “Rarissime” collection a box of two CDs including pieces by Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt recorded a few years ago for the label but also the recordings of both Brahms’ concertos and the concertos N° 3 and N° 5 by Beethoven. He will record a Scarlatti’s recital in the next months for Sony.
The prestigious critic of Munich, Kaiser wrote he is a marvel. Arthur Rubinstein considered him one of the greatest pianists of his generation and chose him to participate in a film that François Reichenbach dedicated to Rubinstein. He is one of those artists who teach us more about those works we thought we knew well and who will in the future, we know, continue to teach us yet more. (Clarendon in the Paris’ newspaper Le Figaro). According to the French magazine Diapason, Bruno Leonardo Gelber is one of the hundred greatest pianists of the 20th century.
MATT HAIMOVITZ and LAURE FAVRE-KAHN, new CD release
The Strad Magazine for the Schumann CD with Laure Favre-Kahn and Matt Haimovitz (label Transart Live)
Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Concerto. Matt Haimovitz (violoncelle) Laure Favre-Kahn (piano) Orchestra de Bretagne, dirigé par Grzegorz Nowak. Transart Live TR 158.
"An intimate yet well-balanced recording made in front of a mercifully quiet audience supports the chamber like dialogue between soloist and orchestra in this performance of the Schumann Cello Concerto. The conducting is incisive and expressive, with considerable attention lavished on inner orchestral detail. Matt Haimovitz offers a reading that is both sensitive and virtuosic: there is great poetic intimacy in the Langsam, particularly in the exposed double-stops, and he provides tremendous rhythmic energy in the finale, which is taken here at a steady tempo. A mellow and rewarding timbre form his 1710 Matteo Gofriller adds to the successful cocktail. All in all, this is not quite as enterprising a compilation as Haimovitz's previous release on this label, which coupled the two Haydn concertos with the rarely heard Feuermann arrangement of Mozart's Flute Concerto. That said, however, Laure Favre-Kahn delivers a pretty formidable interpretation of the Piano Concerto to make this a most attractive release".
Joanne Talbot - The Strad Magazine - July 2011
NEMANJA RADULOVIC
November 29th, 2011 : live in the radio show 'Les Affranchis' with Isabelle Giordano on France Inter, 11:00 AM
November 29th, 2011 6:00 PM : guest of Olivier Bellamy on Radio Classique,
November 29th, 2011 : with Arièle Butaux, France Musique, 10:30 PM, Un mardi idéal
MARCELA ROGGERI plays Gubaïdulina
All Music critique le disque Gubaidulina de Marcela Roggeri chez Transart Live.
The piano music of Tatar-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina stands somewhat aside from the mainstream of her music, which was heavily influenced by Orthodox spirituality and various musico-mystical devices that flowed from it. This single-disc collection, however, shows that piano music played an important role in Gubaidulina's compositional development, and it includes one utterly delightful work. The album covers Gubaidulina's entire output for the piano, all of which dates from 1974 or before; the bulk of the music is from the 1960s. With the Bachian inspiration of the Chaconne, Toccata-Troncata, and Invention (tracks 1, 19, and 20), the music reveals the Shostakovich influence that Gubaidulina has spoken of but that is hard to pin down in her explicitly religious music. The sonata, composed in 1965, uses extended techniques (such as a bamboo-stick glissando executed on the piano's pegs), rough piano analogues of the unusual instrumental combinations that have characterized much of Gubaidulina's music, and contains structural embodiments of the Christian cross. Best of all are the 14 Musical Toys, composed in 1969. These are little descriptive pieces, very Russian, but not quite resembling the music of anybody else. Sample The Little Tit (track 8), where the focus is on the deep quiet of the forest rather than on the slight moments of birdsong. Of course, the set has a large measure of sheer humor -- try the jazz-flavored A Bear Playing the Double Bass and the Black Woman (track 9) -- and it ought to be much better known than it is. Recitalists: you are guaranteed to get good reviews if you program this work! At least if you play everything with the flair shown by Argentine pianist Marcela Roggeri in this live recital from Reims, cleanly recorded in 2007. An enjoyable set, and likely a must-have for Gubaidulina's admirers.
Review by James Manheim
THIERRY ESCAICH in concert with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris under the baton of Olari Efts, on November 4th 2011, at the 104 in Paris. In the Framework of the Estonian Festival "Estonie Tonique".
Program:
Thierry Escaich : Ernnerung (piece for strings)
Improvisations by Thierry Escaich (organ)
Thierry Escaich : Concerto for Organ n°2
NEMANJA RADULOVIC and his Ensembles Les Trilles du Diable & Double Sens in concert in Paris, Salle Gaveau, 7th December 2011
At the time of the release in November of his new CD "The 5 Saisons" chez
Decca/Universal in France
program :
Sarasate 'Caprice basque', Mozart 'Adagio et Rondo', Sedlar 'Spring in
Japan' Création européenne, Vivaldi 'Les 4 Saisons
BRIGITTE ENGERER
plays Grieg’s Concerto, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, M°Mikelssen... read more
MARCELA ROGGERI
Nov 29th, 2011, 12:30 PM : live on France Musique radio with Lionel Esparza
LAURE FAVRE-KAHN
Nov 8th, 2011, live on France Musique by L. Esparza, from 12:35 to 1:40 PM
MARCELA ROGGERI & FLORENT HÉAU
have finished their tour in Argentina with a concert on Novembre 3th 2011 at the Teatro Espanol in Azul
new CD release
At the time of his new CD release :
NEMANJA RADULOVIC and his Ensembles "The Devil's Trills" & "Double Sens Orchestra" in concert Salle Gaveau, Paris / 7th December 2011. Discover the EPK with extracts of the recording session and interview. read more
KATARINA JOVANOVIC will be in in concert with
LAURE FAVRE-KAHN on Nov 17th 2011 in Reims
NEMANJA RADULOVIC
Nov 9th, 2011 : live on France Inter, "Carrefour de Lodéon", from 4:30 to 5:00 PM
The Strad Magazine recommands the new CD release of OLIVIER CHARLIER by Transart Live label
Dans son numéro de juillet 2011, le magazine Strad recommande le nouveau disque Vivaldi d'Olivier Charlier.
Vivaldi : The Four Seasons, L'estro armonico op. 3 no. 6 in A minor & no. 9 in D major. Olivier Charlier (violon) avec Orchestre d'Auvergne. Transart Live TR 157. "A clear-sighted but thrilling account of some much-recorded music. Olivier Charlier and the Orchestre d'Auvergne play exactly what Vivaldi wrote, and play it extremely well. How's that for a concise review? At a time when ensembles and soloists seem to vie with one another to over-egg this seasonal pudding, treating Vivaldi's music as a point of departure of a display of theatrical improvisation, a performance that just does what it says in the score seems dangerously reactionary. But what this superb performance shows is that Vivaldi was quite capable of being colourful and graphic all by himself - he wasn't an opera composer for nothing. Not that there is any lack of drama in this playing. The summer storms are ferocious, and the tipsy yokels of autumn stagger about alarmingly (the above notwithstanding, the players do take some licence with tempo). But there is much sheer beauty as colour here. Charlier plays with a wonderfully clear, focused sound, his vibrato understated and eloquent, his phrasing exquisite. In full cry he is an exciting player, and if you wish to hear how to spin pure magic out of what seems the simplest of melodies, look no further. He recoreded sound of these live performances is excellent, warm and well-balanced."
Tim Homfray - The Strad - July 2011
AllMusic.com : Olivier Charlier - wonderful US Review of the 4 Seasons CD
"Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos are perhaps the most famous pieces of classical music in existence, and new versions of them continue to find a market. A performance by a regional French orchestra and a rising French violinist, none of them using historical instruments, might seem to have a hard road ahead to make itself heard, but this little reading is rounded out with a pair of other very common Vivaldi concertos. The disc was recorded live at a festival in Reims that has served as source material for a number of releases on the Transart label, which is oriented toward live recordings. Violinist Olivier Charlier has a fine singing tone and simply plays to his strengths, shifting the emphasis to the slow (and slower) movements and their limpid melodies. The result is that the most enduring and endearing Vivaldi melody of all (track 11) comes out very well indeed here, and in general the strong tempo contrasts work to the benefit of the music's pictorial scenes. The outer movements contain little that hasn't been done many times before, and the live engineering is uninspiring. But the lesson is that no matter how familiar the Vivaldi Four Seasons may become as they approach their second half century at the top of the classical heap, there's still plenty of room for individual musicians to find the places where these concertos fit their particular talents."
Reviewby James Manheim
GRZEGORZ NOWAK will conduct the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra on November 11th, 2011 at Salle Pleyel in Paris
With the support of the ministry for the culture and the Polish national heritage, of the Institute Adam Mickiewicz and of the Polish institute in Paris, within the framework of the Polish presidency of the European Union.
Program:
Karol Szymanowski : Concert - Ouverture opus 12
Frédéric Chopin : Concerto pour piano n° 2 / Soloist : Rafal Blechacz
Felix Mendelssohn : Symphonie n° 4 "Italienne"
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