Vous trouvez ça classique ? Schubert

Do you think this is classic? , change your eyes on the great works of the repertoire. Alongside Mathieu Herzog and Orchestre Appassionato, this format offers a lively immersion in the heart of the scores: lighting, listening keys, 'tips' and stories enrich the experience of the concert. During 1h15, the conductor speaks directly to the audience with passion, humor and pedagogy to discover the "tubes" of classical music, but also the surprising anecdotes behind their creation, revealing what makes them still so powerful today.

The string quartet The Girl and the Mort de Schubert relies on a lied written a few years earlier, where Death appears to a terrified girl as a comforting rest. We are in 1824: the musician knows he is doomed and throws his last strength into the work.

This tension between fear and appeasement runs through the whole score. The first movement strikes with its tragic urgency. The second, variations on the theme of lied, installs a calm gravity, like a meditation on the inevitable. Scherzo, a sinister and nervous farce, reactivates tension, while the Finale, a breathless macabre dance, seems to run towards an inexorable destiny.

A veritable interior theatre where human fragility and fatality are confronted, the quartet is poorly received during its creation. It won't triumph until after the composer's death, as a tragic echo of Schubert's life.

In an expanded version for string orchestra, Mathieu Herzog and Orchestre Appassionato immerse us in Schubert’s shattering universe, between shadow and light, and let us hear how music sublimates our torments.