Classical music
Mozart, serenade KV. 361 in B flat major « Gran Partita »
Serenade KV 361 in B flat major, called Gran Partita, is a work in seven movements for twelve wind instruments and double bass. Originally devoted to the outdoors, this "Evening Music" goes beyond the spirit of divertimento to get closer from the symphony.
Through its inspiration, the diversity of i...
Olivier Latry plays the Great Organ of Notre-Dame
In the dead of night, in the very centre of the capital, a man is hunched over the keyboards of his instrument. Alone, inside Notre-Dame de Paris. Olivier Latry, one of the cathedral’s resident organists, relishes the privilege of being able to play this great Cavaillé-Coll instrument, which is amon...
Once upon a time… performed by l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France
The Orchestre National d'Ile de France, directed by Enrique Mazzola, invites us to rediscover 3 tales for yound and old alike. Performed at the Philarmonie de Paris :
- Engelbert Humperdinck: prelude of Hänsel and Gretel (8')
- Ruggero Leoncavallo: Prologue of Pagliacci (6')
- Sergueï Prokofiev: Pe...
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France )
Pierre plays in the Russian countryside, near the house of his grandfather. A wolf is hanging around and eats the farm’s duck. Pierre managed to tie his tail, then convinces the hunters not to kill him and finally take him to the zoo. There is more fear than harm in this timeless tale that delights ...
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Prologue de Pagliacci (l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France)
The scene takes place an August afternoon in a village of Calabria. In Pagliacci, the author uses the “mise en abyme” process of the dramatic action: The fiction get mixed up with reality when one of the actors takes advantage of the play to settle accounts with his wife’s lover. The music is compos...
Schubert, Quatuor N°14 “Death and the Maiden”
The Austrian Franz Schubert had a very short life (he died at 31 years of syphilis) but composed about 600 Lieder! Death and the maiden was written in 1817, words are from a poem by Matthias Claudius. This theme is taken from the Greek and Roman mythology (eg the Rape of Proserpina), which opposes t...
Te Deum for the victories of Louis XV
Ensemble Stradivaria, conducted by Daniel CUILLER, and Les Cris de Paris, directed by Geoffroy Jourdain, perform Henry Madin's "Te deum pour les victoires de Louis XV".
Concert recorded at the Chapelle royale du Château de Versailles.
- "Te deum", by Henry Madin 4...
The Cambini Quartet
A passion for period instruments unites these 4 young musicians, which they share with the best groups: the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the Talens Lyriques and the Cercle de l’Harmonie. A passion for research and for the magnificent unrecognized scores that they defend with great zeal. And a passi...
The little pleasures of Seicento
The beginning of the 17th century in Italy saw the emergence of many instrumental forms, testimony of the emancipation of instruments in relation to vocal music.
The Italian language illustrates this phenomenon in the terms cantata, sonata and canzone.
This programme enables us to discover the canzo...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIII
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIII, who chose the site and built the first castle, was a musician and a good dancer in the Court Ballets. He favored the development of royal m...
