Classical music
Sirba Octet : Tanz !
This remarkable ensemble, mid-way between classical and Klezmer music, revives the musical traditions of Eastern Europe by rearranging it according to the rules of classical music. Unique arrangements for eight exceptional musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, who play with dazzling interpretive fr...
The Paris Chamber Orchestra & the Nemtanu Sisters at the Sully Hotel
Every summer, the Paris Chamber Orchestra gives open air symphonic and chamber music concerts in the most beautiful heritage sites in the centre of Paris.
As part of the “Musique dans les Cours du Marais” Festival, the orchestra plays two concerts in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Béthune-Sully, head...
Alondra de la Parra & The Paris Orchestra
In the colors of South America, this concert will weave musical bridges between France, Brazil and Argentina. The festivity begin with the famous Bœuf sur le toit by Milhaud, written in memory of the Rio Carnival; Richard Galliano’s bandoneon will play the Piazzolla’s "Tango Nuevo", and we will also...
Anton Webern : Langsamer Satz+ six bagatelles
A rich and robust interpretation of Langsamer Satz by Anton Webern, composer of the Second Viennese School. The melodic impetus remind the end of the romantic period, particularly well developed by this sensitive and touching ensemble.
A real modernity magnificently revealed by the quartet Les Diss...
Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major. Op. 9
The Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major is an orchestral piece for fifteen solo instruments composed in 1906. Schoenberg composed unstable, irresolvable melodies (like Wagner). He also hated sequences and any form of textual "predictability". He was looking for perpetually changing music th...
Baltic Sea Voyage / Kristjan Järvi
Each year, the best musicians of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, are chosen to create a unique orchestra. Guided by its founder, Conductor and Musical Director Kristjan Järvi, the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP) prepares original programm...
Beethoven, Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61
Beethoven's violin concerto, written in 1806, the same year as the Fourth Symphony, is characterized by its profusion of themes and its unusual length: almost forty minutes, twice the length of most of Mozart's violin concertos.
Today this concerto is considered one of the major pieces of the violin...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C major, op. 67
"Just as you throw yourself here into the worldly maelstrom, so you can write works, in spite of all the hindrances imposed by society. Let your deafness be no longer a secret, even in art.” Beethoven, 1806 (inscription in the margin of a sketch for his Quartet Op. 59 n° 3).
Beethoven was more deter...
Brahms, Symphony N°2 in D major, op.7
After the slow maturation of the First Symphony, the composition of the second one takes one year and its creation in Vienna by Wagnerian conductor Hans Richter is a success. Everybody find it more understandable and brighter. Brahms himself spoke of " waltze series" or "gay and innocent little symp...
Carte blanche to Pierre Hantai
During the 10th Festival of Music and History for Intercultural Dialogue, harpsichordist Pierre HANTAI performs works by William Byrd, Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin and Georg Friedrich Haendel, on a harpsichord manufactured by Philippe Humeau.
Concert recorded at the Fontfroide Abbey i...
