D'UN MATIN DE PRINTEMPS | FRANCK | BOULANGER

Presented by Orchestre de chambre de Paris (L-R-22-7047). Flower of maturity, buds of an early career: César Franck's Quintet and Lili Boulanger's chamber works compose a moving array of Belle Époque French music. The expansive and dramatic architecture makes the Quintet in F minor (1879) written by Franck at the age of fifty-seven the first great quintet of the French repertoire, rehabilitating the genre in the Hexagon. Lili Boulanger was nineteen years old when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome. The influence of Debussy and Fauré, a family friend, permeates Nocturne and Cortège. Based on the same motif, D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste present a striking contrast between flourishing ardor and fatal gravity. Could one read in this diptych a metaphor for the tragic destiny of the young artist whose career was meteoric? She passed away at the age of twenty-four, the very year these two pieces were composed. Program: FRANCK Quintet in F minor with piano BOULANGER Nocturne and Cortège, for piano and violin D’un matin de printemps, for piano, violin, and cello D’un soir triste, for piano, violin, and cello Cast: Franck Della Valle, violin Sylvain Hotellier, violin Stephie Souppaya, viola Sarah Veilhan, cello Lorène de Ratuld, piano