2020-21 season
Catch up with 2020-21 season’s highlights here.
Orchestre de Paris concerts
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Baudelaire’s famous invocation, ‘L’Invitation au voyage’, is the theme for this programme of transcriptions of melodies and Lieder for choir accompanied by piano.
Pierre Boulez biennial
Second half
Second half
For the inaugural concert of the second Pierre Boulez Biennial, Daniel Barenboim conducts Dérive 2, which he considers the composer’s masterpiece. In its finesse and colours, the piece draws parallels with the oeuvre of Claude Debussy.
This Concert-atelier devoted to Pierre Boulez’s piano music showcases rare pieces, with three scores drawn from his catalogue. His last composition for piano solo, Incises, resounds as a particularly brilliant work.
Daniel Barenboim’s conducting and Anne-Sophie Mutter’s golden bow converge for a programme honouring the strings in all their glory—pairing one of Pierre Boulez’s finest scores with two of the highest expressions of Beethovenian art.
This programme by Michael Wendeberg and Nicholas Hodges combines the more rare—Sonata for Two Pianos (1948)—with the more radical—Book I of Structures—composed four years later, an important milestone in Pierre Boulez’s career.
Far from starting with a clean slate, Pierre Boulez draws from the past to create his own music—as with the early liturgical forms used for Répons and Anthèmes 2, performed here in the version for viola by Odile Auboin.
Beethoven
Piano and chamber music
Piano and chamber music
Music and image
A concert with Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris and Martha Argerich in May, followed by Pierre Boulez Biennial with the Boulez Ensemble and the Staatskapelle Berlin in June.
For the inaugural concert of the second Pierre Boulez Biennial, Daniel Barenboim conducts Dérive 2, which he considers the composer’s masterpiece. In its finesse and colours, the piece draws parallels with the oeuvre of Claude Debussy.
Daniel Barenboim’s conducting and Anne-Sophie Mutter’s golden bow converge for a programme honouring the strings in all their glory—pairing one of Pierre Boulez’s finest scores with two of the highest expressions of Beethovenian art.
Artist-in-residence at the Philharmonie de Paris and mentor of the Démos youth orchestras, Khatia Buniatishvili will give two recitals (including one with her sister Gvantsa).
July 2021
A one-of-a-kind pop festival that combines original creations, novel projects, big names and new talents.
September 2021
Coproduced by La Villette, the event covers the entire jazz palette, crossing genre lines to offer a living panorama of this ever-evolving brand of music.
Pour accompagner les enfants qui font leurs premiers pas dans la musique, les ateliers développent la créativité, la curiosité, l’écoute et préparent à de futurs apprentissages. Une véritable séance de partage à vivre avec ou sans parents, dans la sensibilisation à la créativité collective.
The Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris offers affordable and attractive ticket prices so that its musical programming is accessible to the widest possible audience.