Symphonic Concert
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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
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Duration: about
1h40
with 1 intermission
Program
Distribution
Edward Elgar
Concerto pour violon
Intermission
Robert Schumann
Nachtlied
Johannes Brahms
Schicksalslied
Orchestre de Paris
Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Harding
, conducting
Renaud Capuçon
, violin
Elgar’s Violin Concerto unfolds its lyricism and sensuality, all the while preserving its original enigma, the composer having revealed that there was a soul enshrined within it… Two choral Lieder, also shrouded in mystery, further heighten the mystique.
The oracular mysteries of the ‘romantic night’ hover over the three choral Lieder gathered here: the sonic fabric literally palpitates in Schumann’s Nachtlied, hymn to night, to a text by Hebbel; Brahms’s Schicksalslied in three movements, sometimes called his ‘Little Requiem’, is a marvel of melodic charm and harmonic colours.
The oracular mysteries of the ‘romantic night’ hover over the three choral Lieder gathered here: the sonic fabric literally palpitates in Schumann’s Nachtlied, hymn to night, to a text by Hebbel; Brahms’s Schicksalslied in three movements, sometimes called his ‘Little Requiem’, is a marvel of melodic charm and harmonic colours.
In Elgar’s expansive Violin Concerto, Renaud Capuçon’s bow can only add to the general aura of mystery. A work at once lyrical and rhapsodic, melancholy, sensual and tempestuous, it did indeed cultivate an enigmatic reputation, as the composer had noted on the score, in Spanish, a dedication: ‘Herein is enshrined the soul of…’
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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
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Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
To leave after this concert
taxi G7
