Chamber music concert (mezzo-soprano/piano) as part of the Saint-Denis Festival.
Usually at the head of the greatest orchestras, this concert is a unique opportunity to hear the great conductor Sir Simon Rattle at the piano. For this evening in the intimate setting of the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, he surrounded himself with the best musicians whom he directed to accompany Magdalena Kožená, his wife in the city, in a music program of room around Chausson, Ravel, Brahms, Dvořák.
In the program :
Chausson, “Perpetual Song”, op. 37
Stravinsky, Three...
Usually at the head of the greatest orchestras, this concert is a unique opportunity to hear the great conductor Sir Simon Rattle at the piano. For this evening in the intimate setting of the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, he surrounded himself with the best musicians whom he directed to accompany Magdalena Kožená, his wife in the city, in a music program of room around Chausson, Ravel, Brahms, Dvořák.
In the program :
Chausson, “Perpetual Song”, op. 37
Stravinsky, Three Songs of William Shakespeare
Strauss, Song of Ophelia
Ravel, Chansons madécasses
Brahms, Song of Ophelia and Two Songs
Janáček, Říkadla
Dvorak, Gypsy Songs, Op. 55 (arranged by Duncan Ward)