Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Christoph Eschenbach
Renée Fleming - Boulanger, R. Strauss, Brahms
Christoph Eschenbach © Manu Theobald
Renée Fleming © Andrew Eccles
Christoph Eschenbach © Marco BorggreveTo leave after this concert
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Wednesday, 10 March 2021 — 8:30pm
Cancelled
Thursday, 11 March 2021 — 8:30pm
Cancelled
Program
Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
Richard Strauss
Lieder orchestrés
Johannes Brahms
Symphonie n° 4
Distribution
- Orchestre de Paris
- Christoph Eschenbach, conducting
- Renée Fleming, soprano
A listening experience heightened by the affinities between the works in the programme: Lili Boulanger offers harmonic density rivalling that of Strauss, who himself perpetuates the tradition of Brahmsian lyricism.
Infused with a mythical quality, Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 is a masterpiece featuring epic themes, enchanting breakaways and the rigour of pre-classical form, especially in its supremely masterful Finale constructed from variations on a Bach cantata. Its Apollonian serenity is echoed in the limpid, sometimes vehement verve of Lili Boulanger’s ‘happiest’ score, Of a Spring Morning, remarkable in the richness of its harmony, including moments of impressionistic colours.
The concert concludes with Renée Fleming interpreting Strauss’s orchestral lieder—a late bloom of romantic culture which, like a stunning elegy, offers a lyrical and poetic ode: a sumptuous, sometimes devastating adieu to the age of musical magic.
Infused with a mythical quality, Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 is a masterpiece featuring epic themes, enchanting breakaways and the rigour of pre-classical form, especially in its supremely masterful Finale constructed from variations on a Bach cantata. Its Apollonian serenity is echoed in the limpid, sometimes vehement verve of Lili Boulanger’s ‘happiest’ score, Of a Spring Morning, remarkable in the richness of its harmony, including moments of impressionistic colours.
The concert concludes with Renée Fleming interpreting Strauss’s orchestral lieder—a late bloom of romantic culture which, like a stunning elegy, offers a lyrical and poetic ode: a sumptuous, sometimes devastating adieu to the age of musical magic.
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Richard Strauss : Quatre derniers lieder - Juliane Banse (soprano), Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Heinz Holliger (direction)
Johannes Brahms : Symphonie no 4 en mi mineur op. 98 - Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (direction)
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