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Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Leif Ove Andsnes - Rachmaninoff, Tchaïkovski
Symphonic Concert
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
Duration: about 2h10 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Serge Rachmaninoff
Concerto pour piano n° 3
Intermission
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski
Casse-Noisette (Ouverture et Acte 1)
Orchestre de Paris
Klaus Mäkelä , conducting
Leif Ove Andsnes , piano

Two emblematic composers and two illustrious opuses showcase the colour, lyricism and virtuosity of Russian romanticism.

The Nutcracker, king of ballets, is based on Alexandre Dumas’ adaptation of Hoffmann’s famous tale. In 1891, Tchaikovsky began composing music for this Christmas fable, which deals with the passage from childhood to adolescence. As with Sleeping Beauty, he deployed his full powers of melodic ease and sense of orchestral spice for the miniature world of wooden soldiers and dolls making up this fairy tale.

As its partner in this diptych, only the king of concertos would do: thus, Rachmaninov's Third, certainly one of the most demanding in the repertoire, which the film Shine (1993) propelled to a new level of fame. Intended for an American audience and brimming with spectacular effects, this monumental score includes at its foundation, as always with Rachmaninov, Russian folk material, as its famous opening melody, so simple and magnetic, which is venerated in Russia as ‘an icon of Saint Sergei’, to quote the novelist Dominique Fernandez.

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Media

Serge Rachmaninoff : Concerto pour piano n° 3 - Orchestre de Paris, Jorge Luis Prats (piano), Paavo Järvi (direction)
Karina-Canellakis

Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris

To leave after this concert

taxi G7

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