Performing Arts
URBAN VOICES: ON THE ROAD TO INDIA
Imagine a choir of nearly a thousand people of different ages, sex and origin.
Imagine a wonderful melting pot, a fabulous cross section of the people of Nantes, coming from every neighbourhood to sing songs from around the world together. Enthusiastic, curious, joyful, motivated, they come together...
VENETIAN SPLENDOURS: André Campra, Antonio Vivaldi
As part of the 32nd Lyon Baroque Music Festival, the Concert spirituel, under the direction of Hervé NIQUET, performs works by André Campra and Antonio Vivaldi.
Hervé Niquet decided to compare Vivaldi’s world famous work with André Campra’s fascinating Mass Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, disti...
A house in Normandy
Nine characters have come for a long weekend in an old house in Normandy. They’re here somewhat reluctantly, but all hope that, together, they can make something out of the place: a holiday home in which to meet up with friends, a fitness centre, a real estate investment ... However, one after the o...
André Manoukian & China Moses
An exquisite duo! China is not a jazz singer. China is not a blues singer. China is a singer of torch song. The Torch Song, song made to reawaken the flame of impossible love, is a genre whose masters were Sinatra and Jessica Rabbit. André Manoukian is a Voice searcher and lover, wrapping them up wi...
Bartok & Beethoven
The Orchestre National de France, conducted by Bernard Haitink, proposes a two-part concert to pay tribute to two great composers :
- Béla Bartók : Concerto for orchestra BB 123
- Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony n°3 of half flat opus 55 , the so-called "Eroica"
The first concerto by Bartok is ...
Beethoven, Symphony # 3 Op. 55, «Eroica»
Beethoven firstly devoted this symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte but the composer gave up this idea when he learned that the first consul was crowned emperor. He then renamed it in memory of a great man, though it has been finally dedicated to his main patron, the Prince of Lobkowitz. This symphony is ...
Beethoven, Symphony N°8 in F major, op. 93
Beethoven spent the summer of 1812 in Bohemia, in the spas of Teplitz and Carlsbad. It was in Teplitz, where he wrote his famous love letter to his "Immortal Beloved," that he composed most of the Eighth Symphony, continuing immediately on from the Seventh.
The symphony is distinguished by its simpl...
Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
In the Autumn of 1806, Beethoven was staying in Silesia with his main patron, Prince Lichnowsky, who gave him a large allowance and showed a great deal of interest in him. This friendship ended with a violent quarrel, provoked by Beethoven, who refused to play for visiting French officers (Germany b...
Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Unlike the two previous symphonies, that were created in Vienna, this symphony was premiered on the 25th of October 1885 in Meiningen by the Meininger Hofkapelle under the direction of the composer, and it was a success. Brahms and Hans von Bülow, conductor of the Meiningen orchestra, then took it i...
Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
This sextet for two violins, two violas and two cellos was completed in 1860 in Ham. Nicknamed the "Spring Sextet”, the first two movements have a pastoral air. This work has to be played with exceptional commitment to reveal its true nature, which is exactly what Les Dissonances do here. It is driv...
