11th Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris

Belle Époque Gala

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
© Manuel Cohen
The Belle Époque was artistically one of the richest periods in French history. In music, post-Romanticism, still marked by a feverish sentimentality, coexisted with Symbolism, of which Debussy was the figurehead, and with an undying passion for the colours and the sensuality of the Orient. This programme brings together all of those influences, without omitting either sacred inspiration or the enduring craze for instrumental virtuosity. Dubois’s Fantasietta is a curious example, a kind of late concerto grosso, whose miniaturism heralded the neo-Classicism that was to come. Alongside those purely instrumental pieces, Marie-Nicole Lemieux embraces, with all the warmth of her contralto, mélodies (art songs) with orchestral accompaniment by Saint-Saëns and Massenet that posterity has for all too long kept in the shadows.

Dates

Wed 26 June 2024
20.00
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Performers

ORCHESTRE DE CHAMBRE DE PARIS
Fabien Gabel conductor
Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto
Mélanie Laurent harp

Programme

Claude DEBUSSY
Suite bergamasque
Danse sacrée et Danse profane

Camille SAINT-SAËNS
Mélodies persanes

Fernand de LA TOMBELLE
Orientale

Mel BONIS
Danse sacrée

Théodore DUBOIS
Fantasietta

Jules MASSENET
La Vierge
Expressions lyriques
Coproduction Orchestre de chambre de Paris / Palazzetto Bru Zane
Scores by the Palazzetto Bru Zane for Mélodies persanes, Orientale, Danse sacrée and La Vierge