10th Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris
Women Composers of the Romantic era
Concert
Symphonic Music
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Apart from the legacy of Louise Farrenc, few symphonies written by French women in the nineteenth century have come down to us. To discover their orchestral compositions, we have to turn to excerpts – overtures or dance scenes – from operatic works (and they themselves are extremely rare) or else resort to arrangements of genre pieces, originally written for the piano. Nevertheless, women composers who also had a career as concert artists were able to produce concertante works in which their chosen instrument converses with a large ensemble. The virtuoso pianist and teacher Marie Jaëll, for instance, premièred her Second Piano Concerto in 1884 at the Société Nationale de Musique with Édouard Colonne conducting. Although Franz Liszt described the work as “a brilliant masterpiece”, it went almost unnoticed in France, but it did enjoy great popularity in Germany.
Programme
Opere di BERTIN, FARRENC, DANGLAS, BONIS, GRANDVAL, HOLMÈS e JAËLL
Dates
Performers
ORCHESTRE DE CHAMBRE DE PARIS
Hervé Niquet conductor
David Kadouch piano
Works by BERTIN, FARRENC, DANGLAS, BONIS, GRANDVAL, HOLMÈS and JAËLL
Hervé Niquet conductor
David Kadouch piano
Works by BERTIN, FARRENC, DANGLAS, BONIS, GRANDVAL, HOLMÈS and JAËLL
Co-production Orchestre de chambre de Paris / Palazzetto Bru Zane