Classical music
Tchaikovsky: concerto for violin op.35 in D major
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major is a score of immense technical difficulty, which leans openly towards Gypsy music in the last movement and conceals a slow movement full of lyrical nostalgia that goes straight to the heart. Director Radu Mikaileanu gave this concerto a central role in his h...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Op.36 in F minor
Dedicated to Tchaikovsky’s platonic muse (and wealthy patroness) Nadezhda von Meck, the Fourth Symphony conceals a hidden programme, which the composer explained in a letter to his friend. The main idea of the work, the kernel of the whole score, appears at the opening: "Fatum, that fatal power whic...
Verdi: overture of “The Force of Destiny” classical concert
Leonora, daughter of the Marquis of Calatrava, loves a man of mixed race, Don Alvaro, with whom she plans to flee from the paternal castle. Torn between passion and remorse, the girl's hesitation delays the flight of the two lovers, who are surprised by the sudden arrival of her father. Throwing his...
Bach, Christmas Oratorio (Laurence Equilbey)
The Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach is composed of six cantatas brought together for the winter celebrations of 1734-1735.
During this concert at the Philharmonie de Paris, Laurence Equilbey also takes the reins of Vincent Dumestre's Poème Harmonique. The modernity of the harmonic poem a...
El Fuego Latino (Alondra de la Parra / Alexis Cardenas)
Alondro de la Parra is a phenomenon: luminous and charismatic, she has established herself as one of the first female chief conductors of a major symphony orchestra with natural ease and brilliance.
Her enthusiastic, generous and spellbinding performances make her concerts a real treat.
Alexis Card...
HISTOIRES SACRÉES by Marc Antoine Charpentier
“Les Histoires sacrées” is the first scenic project of the “Ensemble Correspondances” directed brilliantly by Sébastien Daucé, it is expressed by a musical setting of religious paintings. Imagined as small sacred operas, the concert is staged around three women, three figures: Judith the heroic wid...
Il Duello Amoroso / Nathalie stutzmann
"Il duello amoroso" is made up of Handel’s opera arias and duets performed by Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) and Emoke Baráth (soprano).
In this imaginary opera by George Frideric Handel created by Nathalie Stutzmann in 2012 in Monte-Carlo, two female singers, one of whom is playing a man part, for...
Molada, the birth (Jasser Haj Youssef, Simone Kermes)
The vocal and instrumental works of Jasser Haj Youssef are unclassifiable. They are impregnated with the improvised style of the Arabic maqams that he learned in Monastir and Sousse (Tunisia) from his father as well as the freest forms of jazz – which he often plays on the viola d'amore . Between sc...
Pierre Henry: Continuo or vision of the futur
The acoustic universe of Pierre Henry is in perpetual evolution. He accepted to create an evening which 'makes a temporal link between yesterday, now and tomorrow'.
Linking man and nature, past and present, at 87 years old, the pioneer of electronic music is still writing, surrounded by his many mac...
