"A trickle of youth": Schumann's phrase about Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream has not aged a day. And then we have the Elgar's Concerto, entrusted to the bow of Frank Peter Zimmermann, where magic is met by mystery…
"A trickle of youth": Schumann's phrase about Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream has not aged a day. And then we have the Elgar's Concerto, entrusted to the bow of Frank Peter Zimmermann, where magic is met by mystery…
Pure symphonic ecstasy, with two monuments in the canon that demand a fully engaged, inventive and visionary orchestra—here, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the baton of he who served as its musical director from 2000 to 2015.
A passionate programme from Orchestre Pasdeloup, with an anthology of 19th- and 20th-century works and a new piece by Béchara El-Khoury, with soloists François Dumont on piano and Arnaud Nuvolone on violin.
From the sarcastic music of The Nose, to his limpid final symphony featuring quotes from Rossini and Wagner, to his striking orchestration of Schumann’s Cello Concerto—a tribute to the multiple facets of Shostakovich.
The mischievous charm of Janáček's opera-pantomime, the apparently improvised virtuosity demanded of Tchaikovsky's cello, not forgetting the nobility and grandeur of one of Beethoven's most beautiful pages… a program that’s sure to please!
The mischievous charm of Janáček's opera-pantomime, the apparently improvised virtuosity demanded of Tchaikovsky's cello, not forgetting the nobility and grandeur of one of Beethoven's most beautiful pages… a program that’s sure to please!
The label-defying, socially engaged, iconoclastic and eclectic artist Olga Neuwirth is the Festival Présences 2025 guest of honour, and flanked by Luciano Berio and Michaël Levinas.
The nervous virtuosity of Burleske places Richard Strauss firmly among the masters of concertante works for piano. In counterpoint, his autobiographical A Hero’s Life, full of twists and turns, stands out as one of his orchestral triumphs.
The suppleness of Elsa Dreisig's voice, matched by the art of sign singing, works wonders in this program devoted to French melody. Fauré's Amours du Poète rub shoulders with the alchemies of Ravel whose Quartet we can also enjoy.
In an invigorating contrast to Ravel’s miraculously delicate orchestration of Le Tombeau de Couperin and Ma mère l'Oye, the barbed rhythms and sparkling orchestral colours of Petrouchka complete a program conceived as as a true hymn to the orchestra.
In a programme imagined as a true hymn to the orchestra, Le Sacre du printemps magnifies the telluric power of the orchestra in striking counterpoint to the miraculously delicate orchestration of Le Tombeau de Couperin and Ma mère l'Oye.
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.
From the romantic piano of the Warsaw Concerto to John Williams’ orchestral brio for Harry Potter and Bernard Herrmann’s enchanting score for Taxi Driver: a concert steeped in the glamour and magic of music for the silver screen.
The great Italian conductor directs two scores characteristic of their authors: Dvořák’s intensely nostalgic Cello Concerto, with Gautier Capuçon as soloist, and Prokofiev’s seductively lyrical Romeo and Juliet.
Heir to the great masters of Japanese cinema, with some 129 film scores to his name, Joe Hisaishi is surely Japan’s most famous composer. Here, he treats his Parisian audience to some of his most beloved music, conducted by none other than himself.
Heir to the great masters of Japanese cinema, with some 129 film scores to his name, Joe Hisaishi is surely Japan’s most famous composer. Here, he treats his Parisian audience to some of his most beloved music, conducted by none other than himself.
From the poetry and sensuality of Debussy’s Faun, and the expressive power of a landmark cello piece, to Mahler’s first great epic, this program showcases the versatile talent of the conducting world’s new prodigy.
Jörg Widmann’s Con brio pays homage to Beethoven’s luminous and spirited penultimate symphony, which in some ways is a throwback to Mozart, whose Sinfonia Concertante is an ode to wind instruments.
La Valse is one of Maurice Ravel’s most striking orchestral inspirations. Between two equally colourful works by Strauss and Manuel de Falla, Ibrahim Maalouf pays tribute to the French composer with his Trumpet Concerto.
La Valse is one of Maurice Ravel’s most striking orchestral inspirations. Between two equally colourful works by Strauss and Manuel de Falla, Ibrahim Maalouf pays tribute to the French composer with his Trumpet Concerto.
The new star of British cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Shostakovich’s formidable Concerto No. 1, before conductor Semyon Bychkov and the venerable Czech Philharmonic tackle the composer’s most famous symphony.
Who better than Katia and Marielle Labèque—surely the most famous piano duo of our day—to render the spirit of Mozart’s sublime concerto? Mahler’s Fifth Symphony then draws us into a whole other world, with its opulence and taut expression.
The Orchestre National de Lille makes a vibrant plea against the scourge of antisemitism. Evoking the victims of the past, this programme reminds us that, in the words of Bertolt Brecht, ‘the belly is still fertile from which the foul beast sprang’.
With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, its musical director the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, and the music of John Adams—which he sometimes performs alongside the composer—Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is on friendly turf.
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