Participatory Concert
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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
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Duration: about
2h54
with 1 intermission
Program
Joseph Haydn
Les Saisons
Printemps - Ete
Intermission
Automne - Hiver
Distribution
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Accentus
Douglas Boyd, conducting
Mari Eriksmoen, soprano
Toby Spence, tenor
Daniel Schmutzhard, baritone
Frank Markowitsch, choirmaster
Haydn’s oratorio, composed in 1801 on a scenario by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, moves through the seasons from spring to winter, alternating between episodes in a popular or pastoral style and grand, majestic choral scenes: dawn, a storm, the hunt, the harvest. But there are also melancholic moments of prayer or dejection, as well as monumental fugues like the one that closes “Winter,” and passages that seem to predict the audacity of Romanticism, like the sound painting of the thick fog…
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
See the venueGetting here
Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris
