SONGE ET TOURMENT | MENDELSSOHN | SCHUMANN | MOZART

Presented by Orchestre de chambre de Paris (L-R-22-7047). Schumann saw in the overture to Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream "a stream of youth." And for good reason: the prodigy composer wrote it at seventeen years old. His music captures the essence of Shakespearean comedy by rendering the whisper of fairies as well as the ardor of lovers or the braying of a donkey. In its day, Schumann's Cello Concerto was perceived as an unusual work. Few musicians back then took an interest in the cello and its expressive potential. Yet these artistic choices presaged the success of this concerto, performed here under the bow of Anastasia Kobekina. Conductor Dinis Sousa and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris complete this program with Mozart's Symphony No. 36, "Linz". Composed in just four days during a stopover by Mozart and Constanze in Linz for a concert requested by the city theater, it conveys the urgency of an author "forced to write a symphony at full speed." The program: MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night's Dream, overture, op. 21 SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129 MOZART Symphony No. 36 in C major, "Linz", K. 425 The artists: Dinis Sousa, conductor Anastasia Kobekina, cello Orchestre de chambre de Paris