ShowConcert Animalia : Quand la nature s'éveille en musique
About
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Presentation
Conceived with the École normale de Musique de Paris – Alfred Cortot, this concert is part of the "Animals in music" series, designed in resonance with the exhibition "Animalia. Bestiary of the Al Thani Collection".
For centuries, animals have nurtured the imagination of composers. Their songs, their movements, their evocative power or their symbolic dimension inspire works of great richness, blending poetry, fantasy, and virtuosity.
This third concert opens the perspective onto nature as a whole, through the way the arts allow us to see and hear the living world. Echoing the myths and imaginary creatures of the exhibition, Rameau's Les Cyclopes opens the program, before Tchaikovsky's The Seasons unfolds, in twelve tableaux, landscapes, animals, atmospheres, and scenes of daily life throughout the year.
With:
Louisa Sophia Jefferson, piano.
Program
« Tchaikovsky's The Seasons »
When nature awakens in music
Louisa Sophia Jefferson, piano
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Les Cyclopes
excerpt from Pièces de clavecin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
The Seasons, op. 37a
January — By the Fireside
February — Carnival
March — Song of the Lark
April — Snowdrop
May — May Nights
June — Barcarolle
July — Reaper's Song
August — The Harvest
September — The Hunt
October — Autumn Song
November — Troika
December — Christmas
Practical info
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