| Dana Ciocarlie | Piano |
| Christophe Giovaninetti | Violin |
| Philippe Cuper | Clarinet |
| Vincent Figuri | Narrateur |
| Nikolaï Tcherepnine | Conte du pêcheur et du poisson |
| Maurice Ravel | Mouvement lent du concerto en sol |
| Maurice Ravel | Habanera |
| Maurice Ravel | Tzigane |
| Maurice Ravel | Ma Mère l’Oye |
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The 8th Philharmonic Concert celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday with his Piano Concerto in G major and the famous Boléro. Ravel's Piano Concerto is a virtuoso piece, while the Boléro develops from a simple musical cell into an overwhelming sonic orgy. The concert opens with Schumann's Symphony No. 2, written during a period of depression, and an introduction 30 minutes before the start.
The 8th Philharmonic Concert celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday with his Piano Concerto in G major and the famous Boléro. Ravel's Piano Concerto is a virtuoso piece, while the Boléro develops from a simple musical cell into an overwhelming sonic orgy. The concert opens with Schumann's Symphony No. 2, written during a period of depression, and an introduction 30 minutes before the start.
Far from beginning with a clean slate, Pierre Boulez drew on ancient forms as foundations for his music, such as the liturgical forms at the heart of Répons—placed here in perspective alongside Debussy and Ravel, and a new work by Charlotte Bray.
In honour of the centenary of Boulez’s birth, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Les Métaboles revisit cummings ist der dichter and sur Incises, two masterpieces emblematic of his sources of inspiration and compositional process.
The Festival of Premieres is a celebration of discoveries – both the latest ones and those which had to wait for their time to come. After all, the masters of traditional and baroque music taught us that discoveries can be made after hundreds or even thousands of years. The forgotten minimalistic works by Tomasz Sikorski and Zygmunt Krauze waited decades for their premieres, and so did Barbara Buczek’s Anekumena, which could not be more stylistically distant from the two. In order to discover themselves, composers sometimes need extraordinary soloists who play unusual instruments (Paweł Romańczuk’s theremin in Paweł Hendrich’s Sfumato) or such instruments that are only superficially usual (Małgorzata Walentynowicz in Jacek Sotomski’s Piano Concerto). An intergenerational, acoustic-electric meeting is about to take place between the Silesian String Quartet and the NeoQuartet, while the ensemble OMN will perform together with the Camerata Silesia. We will also take care of the little ones (Baby Opera by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska), and the AUKSO strings will sing Krzysztof Knittel’s composition on “the gift of life” (the Hawaiian ka makana o ke ola). And what discoveries will the Warsaw-based Hashtag Ensemble bring us? See (and hear!) you at NOSPR from 14th to 16th March.
Alexandre Tharaud’s great passion for the music of Maurice Ravel is well-known, having notably produced his recording of the complete piano works in 2003, and the two concertos some twenty years later, with the Orchestre national de France.
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