Cycle
Mirroring worlds

Evenings abroad

Chamber Music
Travelling is not always a bed of roses. Being far away from home, and friends, and everyday routines leaves plenty of time for reflection, and being alone in unfamiliar surroundings may lead to stirrings of melancholy. The Romantics’ instrument of choice for the expression of such feelings was the cello, an instrument that is also capable of providing a fiery evocation of the diversions that enable travellers to shake off their torpor: dances from the East or from Bohemia which, with their contagious euphoria, restore the delights of being in a foreign land. Here Louis Rodde, cello, and Gwendal Giguelay, piano, capture a whole range of emotions that may be experienced during evenings abroad.

Dates

Thu 12 October 2023
19.30
Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice

Performers

Louis Rodde cello
Gwendal Giguelay piano

Programme

Works for cello and piano by BOISDEFFRE, VIERNE, LISZT, TOLBECQUE, RAVEL and OFFENBACH

René de Boisdeffre
1. Suite orientale pour violoncelle et piano, op. 42 :
I. Sous les palmiers (Rêverie : Andante espressivo) – II. Chanson arabe (Andante)
III. Danse orientale (Allegro)
Louis Vierne
2. Soirs étrangers, op. 56 :
I. Grenade (Andante moderato) – II. Sur le Léman (Adagio) – III. Venise (Allegretto moderato) IV. Steppe canadien (Adagio) – V. Poissons chinois (Vivace)
Franz Liszt
3. La Lugubre Gondole
Auguste Tolbecque
4. Sérénade et Saltarelle pour violoncelle et piano, op. 7 :
I. Sérénade (Andantino con sentimento) – II. Saltarelle (Presto e spiritoso)
Maurice Ravel
5. Deux Mélodies hébraïques : I. Kaddisch (Lent)
Jacques Offenbach
6. Danse bohémienne pour violoncelle et piano, op. 28