season 2011-2012 - Palazzetto Bru Zane
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season 2011-2012 - Palazzetto Bru Zane
SEASON 2011-2012 SEASON 2011-2012 ! Encouraging pioneer projects and excellence at the service of fine causes There are fine causes, with projects that are innovative, well thought-out and truly inspired, but which for their success require the strong support and encouragement of a committed partner. The Fondation Bru supports and accompanies such projects – sometimes quite simply making them possible. Created in 2005 on the initiative of Dr Nicole Bru, with the aim of perpetuating the name and memory of the founders of French pharmaceuticals company Laboratoires UPSA, the Fondation Bru reflects the values of that family of enterprising researchers: strong commitment, profound humanism, a pioneering spirit, a wish to be useful… Man and his environment lie at the heart of all the actions undertaken by the Fondation Bru, which maintains great freedom in the choice of its commitments to patronage and work in the fields of education and research, culture and the cultural heritage. The Fondation Bru is receptive to fine initiatives that are in phase with its own values: ambitious pioneering projects that ate likely to further the causes they serve in a significant manner. www.fondation-bru.org The Palazzetto Bru Zane’s third year of activity sees the ripening of the fruits of the past two seasons. I am particularly delighted because, although reflection, dialogue and conceptualisation are essential in artistic production, as in scientific research, it is none the less necessary to materialise those efforts and give the work carried out a concrete and definitive form: books, sheet music and recordings are now tangible evidence of the research conducted by the Palazzetto and its partners. Fond memories prompt me to mention, for example, the forthcoming release on CD of three piano concertos by Hérold; these were recorded in Warsaw in 2010, following the publication of the scores by the Palazzetto’s editorial partner, Symétrie, then the programme presented at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. This is just one example of the sequence of events and skills that can enable artists and music lovers alike to have access to works that previously could be neither heard nor played, and whose very existence was, to be honest, unknown to most people. Among the fundamental objectives laid down when the Palazzetto was founded, scientific research lies at the heart of the process of rehabilitating the Romantic repertoire. “Separating the wheat from the chaff”, in order to present the best of this music, means making a thorough study of manuscripts that are sometimes barely legible and whose qualities are not necessarily immediately obvious. This selection stage is crucial in justifying the work that comes next. The question of making this repertoire available to as many people as possible was also a central concern. With its special charm, Venice, the anchoring point of the project is one concert centre amongst others. The forthcoming season wholly satisfies these hopes for development, not only by further increasing the number of partner venues, but also by strengthening collaborations that can now be described as faithful. I sincerely thank all those who thus extend and promote our activity. Finally, I must draw attention to the increase in 2011-2012 in the number of teaching and career assistance projects, and partnerships with international competitions (Lyon, Paris, Orléans, Bordeaux and others). The younger generation is the one that will later choose to champion a repertoire that is too often neglected through ignorance. It is likely that if artists’ first contact with this music is through dialogue, the sharing of knowledge and emulation, they will remember it with enthusiasm for a long time to come. And the team of the Palazzetto will see to that. Dr Nicole Bru, president 6 7 ADVISORY COUNCIL AND TEAM Nicole Bru president ADVISORY COUNCIL Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt Alain Durel Michael Fend King’s College, London Emilio Sala Università degli Studi, Milan Michèle Roche Fondation Bru Didier Voydeville Fondation Bru and Palazzetto Bru Zane TEAM ADVISERS Scientific and artistic department Alexandre Dratwicki scientific director Étienne Jardin scientific coordinator (books and symposia) Rosa Giglio artistic coordinator Camille Merlin programmes and discographic partnerships Cyril Bongers scientific coordinator (musical publications) Benoît Dratwicki artistic adviser Baptiste Charroing, Michael Eriskat distribution Communication and ticket department Katia Amoroso communication and promotion Alessandra Amoroso ticket sales Production department Elena Vignotto production Rocco Grandese production and stage management Administration Lino Gagliotta administrative coordination PRESS CONTACTS France: Opus 64, Tel. +33 (0)1 40 26 77 94 Valérie Samuel | v.samuel@opus64.com Italy: Vivace, Tel. +39 349 5856526 Marta Romano | mromano.vivace@gmail.com 9 SEASON 2011-2012 Just as 2010 gave the Palazzetto Bru Zane an opportunity to commemorate the birth of the most French of Italian composers, Luigi Cherubini, 2011 imposes a celebration of that outstanding pianist and truly international artist, who travelled constantly all over Europe, Franz Liszt. The Palazzetto’s Autumn Festival this season is devoted to the eminently Romantic theme of virtuosity, focusing in particular on the emergence of the aesthetic of heroism and the rise of the modern “star system”. Beside the figureheads, Paganini, Liszt and Chopin, the programmes highlight the important role played by neglected artists, such as Alkan and Thalberg. From the sonata to the concerto, from the instrumental repertoire to opera, the epic of the Romantic “challenge” takes shape through the artists brought together for this occasion. For the first time, this season, the second thematic festival is devoted to the works of a composer whose name is now completely unknown to most of us: Théodore Dubois (1837-1924). The catalogue of his works is so impressive that it is hard to imagine that he was completely forgotten after his death, except as the author of a famous treatise on harmony (Traité d’harmonie). Were all his works worthwhile? Was modernity over-radical and unjust in its dismissal of this composer? The Spring Festival in 2012 aims to answer those questions, while at the same time approaching and developing the theme of “official art”, which now tends to be decried. (While being a corollary of our study of Dubois, this also enables us refer to Massenet on the centenary of his death.) As well as enabling us to gain a better understanding of Dubois, the man, and his artistic context, the festival pays a moving tribute to a composer who died as he was writing (Private Diary, 10 18 December 1922): “There must be enough good works among all those I leave to do me some justice!” In February 2012, between those two thematic festivals, comes Le salon romantique, which as usual proposes a series of cartes blanches, with works by Hérold, Gouvy, Onslow, Boëly and many other little-known or unknown composers. The 2011-2012 season sees further results in the musicological initiatives we have undertaken in collaboration with our academic or private partners. Further research topics, the expansion of the catalogue of rare scores, and more diversity in our publications (notably with the launching of a series of paperbacks, intended for a non-specialist readership, that has already attracted much attention): all this enables us to extend our knowledge of this repertoire. Finally, continuing its policy of supporting CD recordings, the Palazzetto initiates a new series this season, concentrating particularly on Romantic opera of the early nineteenth century. The first releases in the series will be Amadis de Gaule by Johann Christian Bach, Cherubini’s Lodoïska, Sémiramis by Catel, and Kreutzer’s La Mort d’Abel. In concert or on CD, you will find, throughout this season, some of the orchestras and artists who have given their loyal support to a committed artistic policy aiming to show the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s raison d’être in reviving for all, with the highest possible standards, an art that is now well on the way to recovering its former popularity. The team of the Palazzetto Bru Zane The 2011-2012 season provides an opportunity to commemorate four great names of French Romanticism: Liszt, Gautier, Massenet and Debussy. They are honoured throughout the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s festivals: Liszt and Gautier appear frequently in the Autumn Festival, devoted to virtuosity, while Massenet and Debussy feature prominently in the Spring Festival devoted to “Théodore Dubois and official art”. Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) 2011 marks the bicentenary of the birth of the French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary, ballet and art critic, Théophile Gautier. The author of Capitaine Fracasse was a great lover of music, whose critical views, published in distinguished newspapers of the time, provide us with precious insight into Italian opera, French grand opera, and the symphonic music of the Second Empire. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) A brilliant pianist and composer, Franz Liszt is no doubt the father figure of nineteenthcentury European music: he provides the important link between Beethoven and Wagner. His bicentenary gives us an opportunity to find out more about his life as a virtuoso in Paris – when he apparently sold his soul to the devil – and his life as a composer in Weimar – when he signed a pact with God. Jules Massenet (1842-1912) Commemorations of the centenary of the death of Massenet – Gounod’s successor on the operatic stage in Paris – enable us to take a look at this composer of successful works including Manon and Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame, in order to gain a better understanding of the man and his art. His eclecticism (now gradually being recognised) reveals a pioneer and an innovator, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in matters of form and sound. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Embodying the radical modernity of post-Romantic French music, Debussy was regarded by the avant-gardists of the twentieth century as a leader. The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the author of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Pelléas et Mélisande gives us an excuse to listen once more to works from a musical catalogue that is more varied than is generally believed. tier Gau 2011 t Lisz 2011 t sene Mas 2 201 ussy Deb 2 201 11 The Palazzetto Bru Zane For a hundred years, the Casino Zane, built between 1695 and 1697 in the San Stin district not far from the Basilica dei Frari, housed the entertainments of the Zane family, who lived in the nearby Palazzo Zane. The main palace (now a training school, the Scuola Livio Sanudo) was separated from the Palazzetto by a splendid formal garden. A building next to the Palazzetto housed the library; it no longer exists. In 1682 the workshop of Baldassare Longhena – the most distinguished Venetian architect of the Baroque period, who designed Ca’ Pesaro and Ca’ Rezzonico – completed the restoration of the Palazzo Zane commissioned by Dominico Zane (d. 1672). On his death the latter had bequeathed his property and an important collection of books and paintings to his nephew Marino. Marino Zane then commissioned the building of a casino (now the Palazzetto) and a library to house the collection left to him, which he had subsequently enlarged. The architect Antonio Gaspari, who had worked in Longhena’s workshop, was given carte blanche to design the casino. On his death, his assistant Domenico Rossi carried on the work with the help of artists of repute. The very rich interior decoration is attributed to the famous stucco decorator Abbondio Stazio; the woodwork, including the ornate wooden balustrade above the main salon, is by Andrea Brustolon. The frescoes in the house have recently been attributed to Sebastiano Ricci. The palace is listed on the National Register of Historic Monuments. After consulta- tions in 2006, restoration work was begun in 2007, the aims of the Fondation Bru being to restore the building in its original spirit and to create a venue for music. The building, with an overall area of eight hundred square metres, is on three levels. Its windows look out over a canal on one side and over the garden on the other. The ground plan is traditional Venetian. The sixteen rooms include a concert hall with a seating capacity of up to a hundred. Now the restoration work is finished, the Palazzetto has a sound-proofed rehearsal studio; there is also a lift for persons with reduced mobility. The glory of the house is the double-height salon (music room of the Zane family) with a magnificent coved ceiling bearing a huge painting of Hercules with Fame and Virtue in the centre, and Olympian gods in grisaille in the four corners. Painted shells, such as those seen on the ceiling, are a rarity in Venice. The room is reached via a grand staircase decorated with splendid frescoes. 13 SUMMARY 15 CONCERTS AND OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS 16 36 48 76 Festival Virtuosity Festival Le salon romantique Festival Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) and official art Operas and ballets 83 84 92 96 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Symposia Valorisation of documentary collections Research themes 105 PUBLICATIONS 106 108 112 Books Scores Recordings 121 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE 131 PARTNERSHIPS 143 PRACTICAL INFORMATION 144 154 156 157 General calendar Calendar of concerts in Venice Ticket prices and booking How to get here CONCERTS AND OTHER MUSICAL EVENTS 17 VIRTUOSITY FESTIVAL | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 Virtuosity, a touchstone of the nineteenth century, encompasses the charms and the excesses of Romantic music, in which it was recognised as having true emotional value. If bravura and “pyrotechnics” resulting from vocal or digital agility were the most immediate manifestations of virtuosity, it was also expressed, in opera especially, through sheer vocal power. The ‘chant de force’ that was required for the operas of Gluck (and soon after, those of Meyerbeer) necessitated such capacities that some singers who were expected to go a long way ruined both their voices and their careers in the space of a few years. The famous singer Cornélie Falcon’s sudden loss of voice is the operatic equivalent of Schumann tearing his ligaments. The attention focused on virtuosity led to appropriate developments in teaching and organology. Books of technical studies (études) and collections presenting various vocalisations dealt with purely mechanical aspects, while what can only be described as torture instruments gradually appeared to strengthen, stretch and loosen the muscles of the arm and hand. At the same time, pitch gradually rose (it was not to be fixed until 1850 onwards) in order to give instruments a clear, bright sound and increase their sound projection. Wind instruments, in particular, freed themselves from a hitherto rudimentary technique. Thus, from the First Empire onwards (the empire of Napoleon I, 1804 - 1814/1815), some singers, such as the famous Mme Branchu, gave up appearing in the tragédies lyriques of Gluck, since they had become inaccessible to their voices. But a new school of singing took up the challenge of Romanticism, setting high C in the ‘chest voice’ as the ideal to be aimed for in a vocal career. At the same time, the evolution of musical genres deferentially served the aspirations of virtuosity. The études of Czerny and Chopin, Liszt and Thalberg became the crucible for pedagogical experimentation, while the concerto with orchestra represented the inevitable apotheosis of concert programmes, and the paraphrase became the prerogative of the middle-class salon. The operatic milieu itself yielded to this passion on the part of the public: the Romantic “grand opera”, invented by Auber, introduced vocalising for characters that had previously either been relegated to the divertissements, or quite simply had not existed. The forte chanteuse replied to the chanteuse à roulades, much to the satisfaction of a public that relished the delights of immediate emotion. Often denigrated, virtuosity nevertheless continued to offer an enchanting spectacle throughout the century, and composers such as Liszt, Paganini, Brahms and Rachmaninov did not hesitate to employ their genius in paying tribute to this “demonic” facet of pluralist Romanticism. 19 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 Romantic experiments Tuesday 13 September 2011 at 9 p.m. Duomo, Forlì (Italy) FILARMONICA ARTURO TOSCANINI DI PARMA CORO LIRICO TERRE VERDIANE CORO FILARMONICO DI PESARO Jan Latham-Koenig, conductor Roberto Prosseda, pedal piano The epic of the Romantic concerto The French Romantic concerto experienced its golden age during the second half of the nineteenth century, flourishing particularly in the works of composers such as Saint-Saëns, Franck, Lalo and Godard. But this genre – which had to make the most of the expressive qualities of opposed and unequal forces of instruments (solo versus tutti) – had first appeared in the 1780s. Favouring the strings and woodwinds first of all, it gradually turned to new soloists, as instrument makers made technical advances. Moreover, the concerto was inseparable from the birth in France of a new symphonic school, inspired by the discovery of the works of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. All the composers of that musically rich century had to deal with those seemingly contradictory elements, with each of them seeking an original solution to the delicate problems posed by the use of a predominant instrument within an orchestral fabric that nevertheless had to be coherent. From that typically French attraction to timbre gradually emerged a repertoire of remarkable variety, both in technique and form, including the essentially traditional grand concerto (Saint-Saëns), freely concerted pieces developed in different ways by different composers (Franck, Chausson, Fauré, Debussy) and the symphonie avec soliste or concerted symphony (exemplified by Berlioz, Lalo and d’Indy). Charles GOUNOD: Concerto for pedal piano and orchestra in E flat major Cristian CARRARA: Magnificat for pedal piano and orchestra Giuseppe VERDI: sinfonias and choruses Paris 1840 LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIE Jérémie Rhorer, conductor Julien Chauvin, solo violin Bertrand Chamayou, piano t Lisz 2011 Franz LISZT: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E flat major Hector BERLIOZ: Rêverie et Caprice, romance for violin and orchestra George ONSLOW: Le Colporteur (overture) Henri REBER: Symphony no. 4 in G major Romantic trilogy ANIMA ETERNA BRUGGE Jos Von Immerseel, conductor Pascal Amoyel, piano t Lisz Friday 19 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) Sunday 4 September 2011 at 8 p.m. Die Glocke, Bremen (Germany) Sunday 16 October 2011 Arsenal, Metz (France) Wednesday 24 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 2011 Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre Franz LISZT: Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major Hector BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique 20 21 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 In the shadow of Wagner ORCHESTRE NATIONAL D’ÎLE-DE-FRANCE Yoel Levi, conductor Maxim Rysanov, viola t Lisz Friday 26 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 2011 Richard WAGNER: Faust overture Franz LISZT: Mephisto valses nos. 1 and 2 Hector BERLIOZ: Harold en Italie “Sacré ou profane?” Étienne-Nicolas MÉHUL: Stratonice (overture) Henri REBER: Symphony no. 3 in E flat major Niccolò PAGANINI: Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major 22 ORCHESTRE DE PICARDIE Arie van Beek, conductor Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano Friday 14 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Arsenal, Metz (France) France / Germany / Italy JEUNE ORCHESTRE ATLANTIQUE David Stern, conductor Daria Fadeeva, piano César FRANCK: Rédemption (symphonic interlude) Alexandre GUILMANT: Symphony no. 2 in A major Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony no. 3 in C minor “with organ” CONCERTO KÖLN Christopher Moulds, conductor Kuba Jakowicz, violin Friday 4 November 2011 Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne (France) Saturday 5 November 2011 Theatre, Abbeville (France) François-Adrien BOIELDIEU: Ma Tante Aurore (overture) Christoph Willibald GLUCK: Orphée et Eurydice (suite) Louis-Ferdinand HÉROLD: Piano Concertos no. 3 in A major and no. 4 in E minor Georges BIZET: Symphony in C major ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LORRAINE Jacques Mercier, conductor The Paganini experience From one Empire to another Christoph Willibald GLUCK: Orphée et Eurydice (suite) Louis-Ferdinand HÉROLD: Piano Concerto no. 4 in E minor Luigi CHERUBINI: Symphony in D major Sunday 11 December 2011 at 5 p.m. Théâtre L’Équinoxe, Châteauroux (France) Monday 12 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre des Quatre-Saisons, Gradignan (France) Tuesday 13 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes (France) Sunday 23 October 2011 at 9 p.m. Teatro Toniolo, Mestre (Italy) Debussy and the “fantaisie” LES SIÈCLES François-Xavier Roth, conductor Alain Planès, piano ussy Deb Thursday 2 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Concert hall, Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) 2 201 Claude DEBUSSY: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Suite no. 1 Philippe HUREL: Phonus 23 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 A concert at Colonne Thursday 9 February 2012 Théâtre des Arts, Rouen (France) Romantic experiments ORCHESTRE DE L’OPÉRA DE ROUEN Haute-Normandie Antony Hermus, conductor Jane Peters, violin BERLINER SYMPHONIKER Lior Shambadal, conductor Roberto Prosseda, pedal piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto no. 1 in A major Symphony no. 2 in A major – Introduction et Rondo capriccioso Gabriel FAURÉ: Pavane Eugène YSAYE: Berceuse op. 20 Charles GOUNOD: Concerto for pedal piano in E flat major Cristian CARRARA: Magnificat for pedal piano and orchestra César FRANCK: Symphony in D minor At the turn of the century ORCHESTRE DE LA PHILHARMONIE SLOVAQUE Alain Pâris, conductor NN, violin ussy Deb Albéric MAGNARD: Hymne à la justice Claude DEBUSSY: Trois Images Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto no. 3 in B minor 201 ussy Deb 201 Thursday 16 and Friday 17 February 2012 Old Opera House, Bratislava (Slovakia) 2 Miniature and outsized MAV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Alain Pâris, conductor Gagely Boganyi, violin Friday 27 April 2012 Teatro Comunale, Pordenone (Italy) Sunday 6 May 2012 Philharmonie, Berlin (Germany) Friday 30 March 2012 RaM Colosseum Centre, Budapest (Hungary) 2 Claude DEBUSSY / Henri BÜSSER: Petite Suite Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto no. 2 in G Minor op. 22 Paul DUKAS: Symphony in C major 24 25 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 Romantic studies Geoffroy Couteau, piano Pianos, pianists and pianism In France, the adventure of the Romantic piano began under the joint impetus of instrument making and the beginnings of virtuosity. From the Empire period onwards, Pleyel and Érard competed with each other to create fortepianos that were ever subtler and more sonorous. Simultaneously, the new “star system” isolated the virtuoso from all the other performers. Who, more than the pianist, could claim to embody the new Romantic hero, sometimes keenly involved in committed actions, sometimes withdrawn into melancholy isolation? The piano repertoire felt the effects of that duality: at the time when intimate pieces were flourishing, the concerto began to adopt increasingly impressive, and even unlikely, turns in order to satisfy the expectations of a public with an appetite for the “spectacular”. Between those two genres, the one intended for the salon, the other for the concert hall, the piano became ubiquitous, used in chamber music, the mélodie, and even on stage in operas, where it was used on many occasions. And as if it were not enough for it to have its own vast repertoire the piano began to turn to transcriptions and arrangements. In countless fantaisies on famous themes, the virtuoso added garlands of embellishments aimed at dazzling the listener. Conversely, the Romantic piano was not afraid to replace a whole orchestra. If the German school, from Beethoven to Brahms, is considered to be the highest expression of the Romantic piano, that is because most people are unaware of the pioneering work of Frenchmen such as Hérold or Alkan. 2011 Camille Saint-Saëns: Études op. 52 nos. 2 and 6, op. 111 no. 6, op. 135 nos. 4 and 5 Charles-Valentin ALKAN: Étude dans les tons mineurs (Scherzo Diabolico) op. 39 no. 3, Étude dans les tons majeurs (Allegro barbaro) op. 35 no. 5 Hélène de MONTGEROULT: Étude no. 110 Frédéric CHOPIN: Études op. 10 no. 12, op. 25 nos. 1, 7 and 12 Pierre-Alexandre BOËLY: Étude no. 15 Franz LISZT: Étude d’exécution transcendante no. 8, “Wilde Jagd ” Romantic pilgrimage Bertrand Chamayou, piano Franz LISZT: Années de pèlerinage 26 t Lisz t Lisz 2011 Sunday 15 May 2011 at 5 p.m. Château du Saillant de Voutezac (France) Monday 30 May 2011 Xiamen (China) Friday 3 June 2011 Qingdao (China) Saturday 4 June 2011 Beijing (China) Saturday 18 June 2011 Lille (France) Thursday 14 July 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Château de Vollore (France) Thursday 28 July 2011 at 9 p.m. Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) Saturday 27 August 2011 at 7 p.m. Les Serres d’Auteuil, Paris (France) Saturday 17 September 2011 at 3 p.m. Côte d’Albâtre (France) Friday 18 November 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) Saturday 19 November 2011 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Saturday 18 June 2011 at 11 a.m. Conservatoire, Lille (France) Friday 22 July 2011 at 8 p.m. Jardins suspendus, Le Havre (France) Saturday 23 July 2011 at 6.45 p.m. Château de Chambord (France) Saturday 20 August 2011 La-Côte-Saint-André (France) Friday 2 September 2011 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) 27 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 A dazzling piano Natalia Morozova, piano Frédéric CHOPIN: Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni Sigismund THALBERG: “Casta Diva”, transcription of the cavatina from Bellini’s Norma Nocturne op. 35 no. 2 “L’Arpeggio” Nocturne in B major Charles-Valentin ALKAN: Grande Sonate op. 33 Berlioz versus Liszt t Lisz Roger Muraro, piano Hector BERLIOZ / Franz LISZT: Symphonie fantastique Wednesday 3 August 2011 Le Dôme, Richelieu (France) Wednesday 24 August 2011 at 8 p.m. Château-Abbaye, Cassan (France) Thursday 25 August 2011 at 5.30 p.m. Salon de musique de Bardou, Mons-la-Trivalle (France) Saturday 27 August 2011 Mairie of the 4th arrondissement, Paris (France) Sunday 13 November 2011 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Friday 19 August 2011 at 5 p.m. Église, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) A pianist at the Opéra Giovanni Bellucci, piano Franz LISZT: operatic transcriptions and paraphrases t Lisz 2011 The art of transcription David Violi, piano t Lisz 2011 Maurice RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit tier Gau Franz LISZT: Mephisto-polka 2011 Waltz from Gounod’s Faust Benjamin GODARD: Les Farfadets op. 67 no. 2 La Fée d’amour op. 67 no. 3 Johann KRÜGER: Fantaisie dramatique on Gounod’s Faust Hector BERLIOZ / Ludwig SCHALL: Three scenes from Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust 28 Wednesday 12 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Philippe Graffin, violin Pascal Devoyon, piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Élégie op. 143 Triptyque op. 136 Marie-Joseph Canteloube DE MALARET: Suite dans la montagne Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice brillant 2011 Storms and Romantic melancholy Devilish paraphrases Thursday 6 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Institut culturel italien de Paris (France) Sunday 21 August 2011 at 5 p.m. La-Côte-Saint-André (France) Monday 19 September 2011 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) Sunday 9 October 2011 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Thursday 13 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Galerie de bal, Palais Impérial de Compiègne (France) Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) Alexei Lubimov, fortepiano Sunday 13 November 2011 at 4.30 p.m. Amphithéâtre, Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) Jan Ladislav DUSSEK: La Mort de Marie-Antoinette Louis-Ferdinand HÉROLD: Piano Sonata in C minor, “L'Amante disperata” Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata no. 17, “The Storm” Franz SCHUBERT: Wanderer Fantaisie 29 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 The Romantic saxophone DUO ATYOPSIS Alexandre Souillart, saxophone Mathieu Acar, piano Emancipation of the wind instruments “Dramatic composers ought to consider the use of wind instruments, which the Germans have understood so well in using them in wind bands. [...] These various instruments should now be used to contribute to expression.” Grétry, who was a precursor in many fields, suggested very early on that musicians should recognise the expressive potential of wind instruments. In the late eighteenth century, it is true that the proliferation of concert societies and the massive influx in Paris of soloists eager to perform there, enabled everyone to experience the amazement of hearing technical feats hitherto unimaginable on the horn, clarinet, bassoon and so on. The concertos and symphonies concertantes, created by the dozen at the Concert Spirituel, then the Théâtres Favart and Feydeau, subjugated audiences. “For some time,” noted the Journal de Paris in 1801, “there has been such a frenzied passion for instrumental music that the genre is now the only one that is fashionable.” Indeed, all 30 the musical institutions in Paris turned to instrumental concerts. The Académie Impériale de Musique, the Opéra Comique and even the Chapelle des Tuileries proposed original – and sometimes extreme – solutions in order to satisfy the prevailing tastes and enable flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon to show their mettle. Tempering that enthusiasm would have meant turning a deaf ear to the indisputable talent of the younger generation, recently graduated from the new Conservatoire: every evening Tulou, Duvernoy, Lefebvre and Ozi would show their skills in friendly battles on the Parisian stages. Moreover that was why the newly acquired virtuosity of the wind instruments flourished more readily in the mould of the symphonie concertante: involving up to ten soloists, allowing each to take the floor in turn, it avoided monotony and favoured comparison. ussy Deb 201 2 Hector BERLIOZ: Chant sacré Jérôme SAVARI: Fantaisie on motifs from Der Freischütz Jules DEMERSSEMAN: Fantaisie on an original theme Georges BIZET: L’Arlésienne (Intermezzo) Ambroise THOMAS: Hamlet (excerpt) André CAPLET: Légende Claude DEBUSSY: Rhapsodie for saxophone Septet and octet OCTUOR DE FRANCE Jean-Louis Sajot, clarinet Yuriko Naganuma, Jean-Christophe Grall, violins Laurent Jouanneau, viola Paul Broutin, cello Michel Fouquet, double bass Jacques Thareau, bassoon Antoine Degremont, horn Jean-Marie Poupelin, oboe Tuesday 2 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Chapelle Notre-Dame du Loc, Saint-Avé (France) Saturday 22 October 2011 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Tuesday 10 July 2012 at 8.45 p.m. Église, Viscomtat (France) Wednesday 10 August 2011 Chapelle Saint-Philibert, Trégunc (France) Thursday 11 August 2011 Orangerie de Bagatelle, Paris (France) Tuesday 18 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) Adolphe BLANC: Septet for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn Antonin REICHA: Octet for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass ad libitum 31 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 1800-1900 QUINTETTE À VENT DE PARIS Vincent Lucas, flute Olivier Doise, oboe Patrick Messina, clarinet Hervé Joulain, horn Philippe Hanon, bassoon Wednesday 24 August 2011 at 5 p.m. La-Côte-Saint-André (France) Thursday 20 October 2011 at 8.15 p.m. La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-laSorgue (France) Saturday 22 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) George ONSLOW: Quintet in F major op. 81 Antonin REICHA: Quintet no. 1 in E minor op. 88 Paul TAFFANEL: Quintet in G minor Georges BIZET / David WALTER: Carmen Suite Horn and piano Claude Padoan, horn Anna Barutti, piano Emmanuel CHABRIER: Larghetto for horn and piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Morceau de concert for horn and piano op. 94 Camille CHEVILLARD: Allegro for horn and piano op. 18 Eugène BOZZA: En forêt Henri BUSSER: Cantecor op. 77 The birth of the French symphony In the salons of the Empire LA SINFONIE BOHÉMIENNE Gilles Thomé, clarinet François Fernandez, violin Gabriel Grosbard, viola Emmanuel Balssa, cello Thursday 20 October 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Salle Aglaé Moyne, Pamiers (France) Sunday 30 October 2011 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Charles-Simon CATEL: Clarinet Quartet in D minor op. 2 no. 3 Matthieu-Frédéric BLASIUS: Quatuor Concertant in B flat major op. 1 no. 3 Charles DUVERNOY: Clarinet and string Quartet op. 2 no. 2 A hundred years of music for oboe Patrick Beaugiraud, oboe Lamia Bensmail, piano Jacques WIDERKEHR: Oboe Sonata in E minor Louis-Emmanuel JADIN: Nocturne Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Oboe Sonata op. 166 Louis VIERNE: Largo and Canzonetta Charles KŒCHLIN: Oboe Sonata op. 58 32 LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIE Jérémie Rhorer, conductor Julien Chauvin, violin and conductor Thursday 5 January 2012 at 2.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Sunday 11 March 2012 at 8 p.m. Philharmonie Cologne (Germany) François-Joseph GOSSEC, Henri-Joseph RIGEL, Simon LEDUC, Johann Christian BACH, Joseph HAYDN: symphonies The Germanic heritage Wednesday 26 October 2011 at 8.15 p.m. Auditorium C. Pollini, Padua (Italy) Friday 28 October 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone (Italy) Saturday 29 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Friday 4 November 2011 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Philippe Bernold, flute Olivier Doise, oboe Raphaël Sévère, clarinet Médéric Debacq, bassoon Benoit de Barsony, horn Olivier Charlier, violin Gérard Caussé, viola Antoine Pierlot, cello Yann Dubost, double bass Tuesday 7 February 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence (France) Louise FARRENC: Nonette op. 28 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Serenade op. 25 Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Quartet for oboe and strings in F major 33 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 “Tragédiennes” LES TALENS LYRIQUES Christophe Rousset, conductor Véronique Gens, soprano “Fortes chanteuses” and “chanteuses à roulades” The arrival of Gluck in Paris (1774) coincided with a revival of the vocal aesthetic of the Paris Opéra’s resident company. At the instigation of a group of outstanding artists, the French school of singing moved towards a technique that, to a much greater extent than is commonly realised, anticipated the power of the Wagnerian and Verdian roles of the following century. With its excessive enthusiasm, Paris even became the capital of a “degenerate” vocal art that was dubbed “urlo francese” (“French shrieking”) – enough said! “L’Opéra toujours/ Fait bruit et merveille:/ On y voit les sourds/ Boucher leurs oreilles” – “The Opéra is always/ A subject of conversation and wonder:/ There one may see even the deaf/ Stopping their ears” (lines from a lampoon of the time). It was Mlle Maillard who really brought the mezzosoprano voice to the Opéra: a generous voice, dark tim- 34 bre, powerful high notes and a cavernous low register were the features acclaimed by the press. At the same time a stunned Parisian public discovered the first Italian contraltos, who came to perform in France from 1801 onwards. These divas sang almost as low as tenors and possessed marvellous coloratura skills. Their success convinced the new generation of French composers to incorporate this type of voice into the cast for works in which the traditional preference had been for the pairing of a lyric soprano and a dramatic soprano. After the 1850s, the taste for pyrotechnical vocalises (known as “roulades” in nineteenth-century France) gradually died out, and priority was given to compositional roles (Mignon, Carmen, Manon, and so on) that were less demanding vocally. François-Joseph GOSSEC: Thésée (air, Médée) Christoph Willibald GLUCK: Iphigénie en Tauride (air, Iphigénie) Luigi CHERUBINI: Médée (overture) Antonio SALIERI: Les Danaïdes (overture) Étienne-Nicolas MÉHUL: Ariodant (air, Ina) Stratonice (overture) Rodolphe KREUTZER: Astianax (air, Cassandre) Giacomo MEYERBEER: Le Prophète (air, Fidès) Hector BERLIOZ: Les Troyens (air, Didon) Guiseppe VERDI: Don Carlos (air, Élisabeth of Valois) Vocalises Julie Fuchs, soprano Alphonse Cemin, piano t Lisz 11 20 Gioachino ROSSINI: Le Comte Ory Léo DELIBES: Jean de Nivelle Franz LISZT: Paraphrase sur Rigoletto François-Adrien BOIELDIEU: La Fête du village voisin Gaetano DONIZETTI: La Fille du régiment Giacomo MEYERBEER: Le Pardon de Ploërmel Emmanuel CHABRIER: Pièces pittoresques Charles GOUNOD: La Colombe Charles LECOCQ: Le Cœur et la Main Wednesday 20 July 2011 at 8 p.m. Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France) Sunday 14 August 2011 at 6.30 p.m. Kultur und Kongresszentrum, Lucerne (Switzerland) Saturday 8 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) Thursday 13 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse (France) Saturday 15 October 2011 at 8 p.m. Arsenal, Metz (France) Tuesday 10 April 2012 at 8 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Tuesday 26 July 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Château de Chambord (France) Friday 12 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Salon du Bois des Moutiers, Varengeville-sur-mer (France) Saturday 8 October 2011 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Sunday 5 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne (France) Wednesday 15 February 2012 at 6 p.m. Opéra de Lille (France) 35 FESTIVAL «VIRTUOSITY» | 8 OCTOBER -19 NOVEMBER 2011 Revolutions in Classical opera LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL Hervé Niquet, conductor Julie Fuchs, soprano Katia Velletaz, soprano Jennifer Borghi, mezzo-soprano Marie Kalinine, mezzo-soprano Mathias Vidal, tenor Jeffrey Thompson, tenor Benoît Capt, baritone Aimery Lefèvre, baritone Sunday 2 October 2011 Salle Pasteur, Montpellier (France) Tuesday 4 October 2011 Opéra Royal, Versailles (France) Saturday 14 April 2012 Théâtre d'Arras (France) Antonio SACCHINI: Renaud ou La Suite d’Armide (excerpts) André-Ernest-Modeste GRÉTRY: Panurge dans l’île des lanternes (excerpts) A new trade in virtuosity I VIRTUOSI DELLE MUSE Stefano Molardi, fortepiano and conductor Jonathan Guyonnet, solo violin Roberta Invernizzi, soprano Henri-Joseph RIGEL: Concerto concertant op. 20 for solo violin and solo piano in D major Henri-Montan BERTON: Le Concert interrompu (scène de concert) Nicolas-Marie DALAYRAC: Renaud d’Ast (overture) François-Joseph GOSSEC: Symphonie Concertante in E flat major for 2 solo violins and 2 solo violas Symphonie Concertante du Premier Navigateur for solo flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn François DEVIENNE: Les Comédiens ambulants (overture) André-Ernest-Modeste GRÉTRY: La Caravane du Caire (air for the Italian Slave) Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Idomeneo (aria for Illia, “Zeffiretti lusinghieri”) 36 Tuesday 15 November 2011 at 9 p.m. Opéra Royal, Versailles (France) Thursday 17 November 2011 at 8 p.m. Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) Saturday 19 November 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Teatro Bibiena, Mantua (Italy) Le salon romantique FESTIVAL | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 Each winter the Palazzetto Bru Zane welcomes to Venice artists from various horizons – promising young talents or confirmed musicians – for a series of cartes blanches devoted to the French Romantic repertoire. The programmes are worked out collegially by the Palazzetto teams and the artists themselves, with the aim of presenting audiences with a varied panorama of famous works and unknown rarities. A partnership network enables these programmes to be presented in other parts of the world and thus reach a very wide audience. This festival, free from the constraint of obedience to a specific musical theme, provides the ideal opportunity to show to its best advantage the concert room at the Centre de musique romantique française, which is of a size comparable to that of the nineteenth-century salons for which quartets, sonatas, romances and mélodies were composed. Thus, each year, Le salon romantique is devoted almost exclusively to the chamber works, both instrumental and vocal, that are typical of that repertoire: sonata, duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and so on, up to and including the piece for ten musicians. Rare or “picturesque” instruments (harp, saxophone, brass, and so on) are not excluded, nor are the practices such as arrangement and transcription that were common in the Romantic period but are not as well known today as they might be. Le salon romantique also provides an opportunity to develop, or strengthen, the partnerships that the Palazzetto has initiated “extra muros”, particularly with international music competitions: Quatuors à Bordeaux, Concours international de musique de chambre de Lyon, Concours Rostropovitch, Concours international de piano d’Orléans and the Paris International Opera Competition. This festival also enables us to give students of a high level of attainment the advantage of public contact in concert. The 2011-2012 season thus carries on the close collaboration already begun with the Haute École de Musique de Genève and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Presented during the Carnival period, fine works by Chopin, Debussy, Gounod, Duparc and Fauré, but also Jadin, Onslow, Boëly, Wormser, Hüe, Hillemacher, Diémer, Ropartz, Joncières, Massé, Bonis, d’Indy and Caplet, will echo the effervescence of Venice at that time of year with a sort of musical Carnival, in which the mask of oblivion will be removed to reveal some of the treasures of Romanticism that are still awaiting rediscovery. 39 FESTIVAL «LE SALON ROMANTIQUE» | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 Quartet in the salon Wednesday 1 June 2011 Marble Palace (Russian Museum), St. Petersburg (Russia) Friday 6 January 2012 at 1 p.m. Sunday 8 January 2012 at 11 a.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Sunday 12 February 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Saturday 17 March 2012 at 8 p.m. Chapelle du Calvaire, Paris (France) May 2012 Oratorio S. FIlippo Neri, Bologna (Italy) QUATUOR CAMBINI — PARIS Julien Chauvin, Karine Crocquenoy, violins Pierre-Éric Nimylowycz, viola Atsushi Sakai, cello Charles GOUNOD: String Quartet no. 3 in A minor Théodore GOUVY: String Quartet Félicien DAVID: String Quartet no. 4 in E minor Friday 10 June 2011 Temple du Foyer de l’Âme, Paris (France) Sunday 11 December 2011 at 11 a.m. La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-laSorgue (France) Saturday 17 December 2011 Théâtre de Morlaix (France) Monday 16 January 2012 Salle Poirel, Nancy (France) Tuesday 7 February 2012 Temple d’Illkirch (France) Tuesday 28 February 2012 Arsenal, Metz (France) TRIO AnPaPié Alice Piérot, violin Fanny Paccoud, viola Elena Andreyev, cello Hyacinthe JADIN: string trios Three for duos César FRANCK: Violin Sonata Claude DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata Gabriel FAURÉ: Violin Sonata no. 2 40 CONTRASTE Magali Léger, soprano Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano Didier Sandre, narrator Monday 11 July 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Abbatiale, Saint-Riquier (France) ussy Deb 201 2 Maurice RAVEL, Claude DEBUSSY, Reynaldo HAHN: French mélodies From one modernity to another Saturday 20 August 2011 Théâtre des Terrasses, Gordes (France) Saturday 27 August 2011 Musiques en voûtes, Burgundy (France) Sunday 28 August 2011 Musiques en voûtes, Burgundy (France) Saturday 29 October 2011 Concert Hall of the Conservatory, Singapore November 2011 Hong Kong (China) QUATUOR MANFRED Marie Béreau, Luigi Vecchioni, violins Emmanuel Haratyk, viola Christian Wolff, cello Mozart in France Tedi Papavrami, violin Anthony Leroy, cello Sandra Moubarak, piano An evening with Marcel Proust ussy Deb 201 2 Monday 11 July 2011 at 4.30 p.m. Église, Oneux (France) Hyacinthe JADIN: String Quartet op. 2 no. 1 Gabriel FAURÉ: String Quartet op. 121 César FRANCK: String Quartet in D major From one century to another TRIO GEORGE SAND Virginie Buscail, violin Nadine Pierre, cello Anne-Lise Gastaldi, piano Jennifer Tani, soprano t Lisz 2011 t sene s a M 201 ussy Deb 201 Sunday 28 August 2011 at 5 p.m. Énglise, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 2 2 Franz LISZT: Tristia Georges BIZET: Ouvre ton cœur Charles GOUNOD: Le Soir Hector BERLIOZ: La Captive – Absence Claude DEBUSSY: Printemps Jules MASSENET: On dit Lili BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps 41 FESTIVAL «LE SALON ROMANTIQUE» | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 “Panorama pianistique” ussy Deb Andrea Bacchetti, piano 2 201 Luigi CHERUBINI: Piano Sonata no. 4 in G major Francis POULENC: Novelette no. 1 in C minor Théodore DUBOIS: Berceuse Claude DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune (Suite bergamasque) – La Fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, book 1 no. 8) – Bruyères (Preludes, book 2 no. 5) – La Cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, book 1 no. 10) Louis DIÉMER: Nocturne no. 1 Frédéric CHOPIN: Nocturnes op. 9 nos. 1 and 2 – Fantaisie-Impromptu op. 66 The art of transcription Héloïse Luzzati, cello Constance Luzzati, harp t sene Mas 201 2 Louis VIERNE: Sonate for cello and harp Gabriel FAURÉ: mélodies (transcription) George ONSLOW: Sonata for cello and harp Jules MASSENET: Méditation de Thaïs From Germany… TRIO ARCADIS Anne-Claire Lantenois, piano Amandine Ley, violin Nicolas Saint-Yves, cello Saturday 10 September 2011 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) Saturday 18 February 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Thursday 15 September 2011 Hôpital Sainte-Périne, Paris (France) Sunday 2 October 2011 Musée-Promenade Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes (France) Saturday 14 January 2012 Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales), Paris (France) Sunday 18 September 2011 at 3 p.m. Côte d’Albâtre (France) Sunday 19 February 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Hérold, the French Schubert Romain Descharmes, piano Louis-Ferdinand HÉROLD: Variations on “Au clair de la Lune” Piano Sonata in A flat major Piano Sonata in C minor, “L‘Amante disperata” Franz SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in A minor Cantatas for the Prix de Rome Katia Velletaz, soprano Marie Kalinine, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Borghi, mezzo-soprano Philippe Do, tenor Pierre-Yves Pruvot, baritone Stéphane Jamin, piano Thursday 6 October 2011 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) Friday 14 October 2011 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-laSorgue (France) Friday 3 February 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) Saturday 11 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Monday 28 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Saturday 8 October 2011 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) Saturday 4 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) Georges HÜE: Médée André WORMSER: Clytemnestre Paul-Joseph HILLEMACHER: Judith Max D’OLLONE: Frédégonde Ernest CHAUSSON: Piano Trio Théodore GOUVY: Piano Trio no. 4 Théodore DUBOIS: Promenade sentimentale 42 43 FESTIVAL «LE SALON ROMANTIQUE» | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 At the time of Wagnerianism Thursday 3 November 2011 Arsenal, Metz (France) QUATUOR ALMA AMADÉ Heide Sibley, Claire Jolivet, violins Elizabeth Gex, viola Aude Vanackère, cello From opera to operetta Marie Kalinine, mezzo-soprano Julien Le Hérissier, piano tier Gau 2011 Charles GOUNOD: Sapho Emmanuel CHABRIER: L’Étoile Ambroise THOMAS: Mignon Jacques OFFENBACH: La Périchole – La Grande Duchesse de Géroldstein Georges BIZET: Carmen Mireille Delunsch, soprano Marie-Josèphe Jude, piano Théodore GOUVY: String Quartet op. 68 Richard WAGNER: Wesendonck lieder Ernest CHAUSSON / Franck VILLARD: Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer Treasures of the “opéra-comique” “Ariettes oubliées” Estelle Béréau, soprano Charlotte Bonneu, piano ussy Deb 2 201 Ernest CHAUSSON: mélodies Reynaldo HAHN: mélodies Claude DEBUSSY: Ariettes oubliées – Clair de Lune Maurice RAVEL: Mélodies populaires grecques Four hands Sanja and Lidija Bizjak, piano Frédéric CHOPIN: Variations in D major Hyacinthe JADIN: Sonata in F major George ONSLOW: Sonata in F minor Pierre-Alexandre BOËLY: Sonata in F minor 44 Thursday 10 November 2011 Hôpital Sainte-Périne, Paris (France) Saturday 10 March 2012 Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales), Paris (France) Yumiko Tanimura, soprano Sébastien Droy, tenor Franck Villard, piano tier Gau 2011 Sunday 15 January 2012 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) Friday 18 May 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) Friday 25 November 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) Wednesday 8 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Charles GOUNOD: Mireille (airs and duet) Victor MASSÉ: Paul et Virginie (duet) Gaetano DONIZETTI: La Fille du régiment (airs et duet) Victorin JONCIÈRES: Le Chevalier Jean (duet) Thursday 17 November 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) Sunday 20 November 2011 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) Saturday 18 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venise (Italy) Sunday 29 February 2012 at 4.30 p.m. Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza (Italy) 45 FESTIVAL «LE SALON ROMANTIQUE» | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 “Mélodies” Philippe Jarrousky, countertenor Jérôme Ducros, piano t sene Mas 201 2 Thursday 9 February 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence (France) Gabriel DUPONT: Mandoline Ernest CHAUSSON: Le Colibri, op. 2 no. 7 – Papillons, op. 2 no. 3 – Les Heures, op. 27 no. 1 – Le Temps des lilas (Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer, op. 19) Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Tournoiement (Songe d’opium), op. 26 no. 6 Reynaldo HAHN: Offrande – Trois Jours de vendange – Quand je fus pris au pavillon (12 Rondels no. 8) – L’Heure exquise – Fêtes galantes Jules MASSENET: Nuit d’Espagne Gabriel FAURÉ: Automne, op. 18 no. 3 – En Sourdine, op. 58 no. 1 – Nell, op. 18 no. 1 César FRANCK: Nocturne – Prélude pour piano Guillaume LEKEU: Sur une tombe (3 Poèmes no. 1) Cécile CHAMINADE: Mignonne – Automne, op. 35 no. 2 – À Chloris – Sombrero (excerpt) Time for modernity Alexis Descharmes, cello Sébastien Vichard, piano Jean-Guy ROPARTZ: Cello Sonata no. 2 Henri DUPARC: Cello Sonata Gabriel FAURÉ: Cello Sonata no. 1 op. 109 46 Music for wind instruments Saturday 25 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) Sunday 26 February 2012 at 4.30 p.m. Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza (Italy) ENSEMBLE INITIUM Édouard Sabo, Julien Vern, flutes Guillaume Deshayes, Armel Descotte, oboes François Lemoine, François Tissot, clarinets Julien Desplanque, Stéphane Bridoux, horns Baptiste Arcaix, Franck Sibold, bassoons Georges ENESCO: Dixtuor in D major op. 14 Mel BONIS: Suite antique Vincent D’INDY: Chanson et danses op. 50 André CAPLET: Suite persane “L’invitation au voyage…” Tassis Christoyannis, baritone Thanassis Apostolopoulos, piano Thursday 16 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) t sene Mas 201 2 Ernest REYER: Pourquoi ne m’aimez-vous ? Henri REBER: Au bord du ruisseau Édouard LALO: L’Aube naît – Souvenir Jules MASSENET: Si tu veux, mignonne – Sérénade – Loin de moi ta lèvre qui ment – Le Sentier perdu – Que l’heure est donc brève – Souhait – À mignonne Gabriel FAURÉ: Nocturne no. 2 – Après un rêve – Au bord de l’eau – Clair de Lune – Les Berceaux Henri DUPARC: L’Invitation au voyage – Chanson triste – Soupir – La Vague et la Cloche Reynaldo HAHN: Venezia – Sopra l’acqua indormenzada – L’Avertimento Tuesday 28 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Thursday 1 March 2012 at 8.15 p.m. La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-laSorgue (France) 47 FESTIVAL «LE SALON ROMANTIQUE» | 4 –28 FEBRUARY 2012 Tribute to Claude Debussy Philippe Graffin, violin Claire Désert, piano ussy Deb 201 Tuesday 28 February 2012 at 8.15 p.m. Auditorium C. Pollini, Padua (Italy) 2 Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg: pieces for violin and piano The French cello school François Salque, cello Éric Le Sage, piano Wednesday 30 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata Gabriel FAURÉ: Cello Sonata Mélodies françaises Jean-François Lapointe, baritone NN, piano Gabriel FAURÉ, Reynaldo HAHN, Henri DUPARC, Francis POULENC: mélodies 48 Saturday 2 June 2012 at 8 p.m. Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) and official art FESTIVAL | 14 APRIL –27 MAY 2012 Théodore Dubois, born in 1837, was a gifted pupil, whose brilliant studies at the Paris Conservatoire were rewarded by several first prizes, notably for piano and composition, and the Prix de Rome (1861). On his return from Italy, he began a regular and patient ascent: he was appointed professor of harmony at the Conservatoire in 1871, professor of composition ten years later, and finally director from 1896 until his retirement in 1905. Simultaneously, he devoted himself to church music, notably as organist of La Madeleine (1877-1896). He was also honoured by official milieus, and became a member of the Institut de France in 1894. His reputation suffered posthumously from his having held that privileged position. Yet, while remaining faithful to his ideals of clarity and respect for tradition, he was aware of the advances made in his time, as is borne out by his membership of the Société Nationale de Musique. Eclectic in its inspiration, his œuvre is vast and varied, approaching every genre and identifying as much with César Franck and Schumann as with Brahms or Saint-Saëns. The “unpopular” Dubois, seen above all as the author of a daunting Traité d’harmonie, represented the official milieu of fin-de-siècle France, over which hung the disturbing shadow of an “academicism” in art that was fiercely decried. Now, however, with sufficient hindsight, we can see the music of that time and milieu more objectively and give it the chance it deserves, revealing an art that has surprisingly intoxicating charms. We shall also summon once illustrious (but now famously unknown) contemporaries of Dubois, who bore such names as Gouvy, De La Tombelle, Paladilhe, Chaminade, Bordes, Duvernoy, Pfeiffer… All of them, no doubt, have patiently paid their tribute to the purgatory of posterity. And as Dubois wrote in the final pages of his diary: “I don’t know if I am wrong; but somehow I feel certain that if later, after I am gone, [my works] fall into the hands of fair-minded musicians and critics, the tide will turn in my favour! I won’t be there to enjoy it, but it doesn’t matter, it is nice to think about it! [...]There must be enough good works among all those I leave to do me some justice!” (18 December, 1922). The time has come, Monsieur Dubois! 51 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 At the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire LA CHAMBRE PHILHARMONIQUE Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano When the concert societies set the tone... To describe fully a period as vast and complex musically as the Second Empire and the Third Republic (a period corresponding to Dubois’s activity as a composer) we must evoke that vector of dissemination, the great concert societies. Thus, the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, founded in 1828 by Habeneck to enable the public to discover the works of Beethoven, was to have a significant influence on the art of a whole generation of composers. It was followed, some decades later, by the three societies founded by Pasdeloup (1861), Colonne (1873) and Lamoureux (1881), and the Société Nationale de Musique (1871) and its rival the Société de Musique Indépendante (1909). All of these were excellent orchestras which not only presented the first performances of many famous works, but also contributed to the influence of the avant-garde at the turn of the century. Touching on every genre and every period, the programmes of that time were very eclectic: a mosaic of overtures, operatic excerpts, symphonies, concertos, symphonic poems and genre pieces, secular works and religious compositions, French and foreign, from the briefest mélodie to the most ambitious oratorio. Without a shadow of a doubt, the history of the aesthetic revolution accomplished in Paris during the second half of the nineteenth century was only possible through the combined efforts of those concert societies, where the works of Dubois were heard regularly. Thursday 18 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) t Lisz 2011 Hector BERLIOZ: Béatrice et Bénédict (overture) Les Nuits d’été op. 7 Franz LISZT: Mazeppa Les Préludes Mystery and melancholy LES SIÈCLES François-Xavier Roth, conductor Saturday 20 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) t Lisz 2011 Franz LISZT: Dante Symphonie Hector BERLIOZ: Tristia op. 18 Romantic heroes ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON Eliahu Inbal, conductor Charles Castronovo, tenor t Lisz Saturday 27 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 2011 Franz LISZT: Faust Symphonie Hector BERLIOZ: Roméo et Juliette (excerpts) 52 53 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Berlioz the Revolutionary Sunday 28 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) ORCHESTRE EUROPÉEN HECTOR BERLIOZ CHŒUR BRITTEN François-Xavier Roth, conductor Hector BERLIOZ: Marche marocaine – Marche d’Isly – Huit Scènes de Faust op. 1 Jean-Paul-Égide MARTINI / Hector BERLIOZ: Plaisir d’amour Claude-Joseph ROUGET DE LISLE / Hector BERLIOZ: Chant des Marseillais Gala: Massenet Centenary LES SIÈCLES François-Xavier Roth, conductor Marie-Josèphe Jude, piano t sene Mas 2 201 Jules MASSENET: Scènes alsaciennes – Piano Concerto – Le Cid (ballet) – Louise de Mézière “Sur un air de danse” “À la française…” LES SIÈCLES François-Xavier Roth, conductor Alain Planès, piano ussy Deb 2 201 Théodore DUBOIS: Symphonie française Claude DEBUSSY: La Mer Fantaisie for piano and orchestra A Sunday at the Châtelet BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC Hervé Niquet, conductor Emmanuel Ceysson, harp ussy Deb 201 2 Sunday 20 May 2012 at 3 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Tuesday 10 April 2012 Le Mail, Soissons (France) Wednesday 11 April 2012 Monte-Carlo Thursday 12 April 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France) Friday 13 April 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Auditorium Parco della musica, Rome (Italy) Sunday 15 April 2012 at 5 p.m. Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) ORCHESTRE POITOU-CHARENTES Jean-François Heisser, piano and conductor Marc Coppey, cello Thursday 24 May 2012 Le Mans (France) Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre Théodore DUBOIS: Andante for cello and orchestra Suite concertante for cello, piano and orchestra Maurice RAVEL: Boléro Thursday 3 May 2012 at 8.15 p.m. Salle Flagey, Brussels (Belgium) Saturday 5 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) Théodore DUBOIS: Ouverture symphonique (1894) Claude DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and orchestra Gabriel PIERNÉ: Konzertstück for harp and orchestra Théodore DUBOIS: Symphonie no. 2 in D major 54 55 Daniel Klajner, conductor Gal James, soprano Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October 2011 at 8 p.m. La Filature, Mulhouse (France) Théodore DUBOIS: In Memoriam mortuorum Richard STRAUSS: Vier letzte Lieder Johannes BRAHMS: Symphony no. 4 ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MULHOUSE Dubois, “resident composer” The Orchestre de Mulhouse will be paying tribute to Théodore Dubois by posthumously adopting him as their “resident composer” for the 2011-12 season. From autumn to spring, the orchestra, their conductor and several international soloists will be presenting completely forgotten works by Dubois, such as the Fantaisie for harp, the Three Symphonic Sketches, and the Dixtuor for double quintet. Julia Jones, conductor Alexander Sitkowetski, violon Théodore DUBOIS: Trois Esquisses orchestrales Ernest CHAUSSON: Poème for violin and orchestra Pablo DE SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen Francis POULENC: Les Biches Daniel Klajner, conductor Emmanuel Ceysson, harp Friday 25 and Saturday 26 November 2011 at 8 p.m. La Filature, Mulhouse (France) Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March 2012 at 8 p.m. La Filature, Mulhouse (France) Théodore DUBOIS: Fantaisie for harp and orchestra Piotr Illitch TCHAÏKOVSKY: Symphonie nº 6 “Pathétique” Christoph EHRENFELLNER: Pièce pour orchestre SOLOISTS OF THE ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MULHOUSE Théodore DUBOIS: Dixtuor 56 Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 June 2012 at 7 p.m. Musée de l’impression sur étoffe, Mulhouse (France) 57 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 From Saint-Clotilde to La Madeleine ENSEMBLE VOIX CÉLESTES Marco Cortinovis, organ and conductor Yoko Takeuchi, Hélène Richer, sopranos Clara Izambert, harp Lucile Mauchoffé, cello Sacred art and official art Just as sacred music and religious music are persistently confused, French church music of the nineteenth century is often seen as a consummate expression of official art – with the word “official” taken to mean “academic” and “conservative”, thus disregarding the variety of means brought into play and the perspicacity of certain organists or maîtres de chapelle, such as Saint-Saëns, Franck, Baptiste, Fauré and Pierné. In the cities, church services were accompanied by ensembles composed basically of a few soloists gathered around a harmonium, or a great organ when required. In the wealthiest chapels, a violin, cello, harp and double bass would support a larger choir, whose soloists would perform solos worthy of grand opera. At the same time religious music made its way into the concert hall, where large-scale biblical works in the tradition of the oratorios of Mendelssohn and Liszt were given regularly – precious works that 58 have now been forgotten: Le Passage de la Mer Rouge (Rabuteau, 1871), L’Incarnation de Jésus (Maréchal, 1873), Sainte Geneviève (Hillemacher, 1877), Le Sinaï (Broutin, 1880), Saül (Hüe, 1880), Saint Georges (Vidal, 1884), Les Saintes Maries de la Mer (Paladilhe, 1890)... and the more famous Martyre de Saint Sébastien by Debussy. Organist of the churches of Sainte-Clotilde and La Madeleine, Théodore Dubois composed many masses, motets and oratorios, the finest of which are probably his Messe pontificale, Les Sept Paroles du Christ and Le Paradis perdu, not to mention some motets using spectacular forces. He also left several books of more or less ambitious organ pieces. t sene Mas 201 2 Théodore DUBOIS, Mel BONIS, Jules MASSENET, César FRANCK, Camille SAINT-SAËNS, Charles-Valentin ALKAN, Pierre-Louis DIETSCH, Gabriel FAURÉ and Georges BIZET: motets and instrumental pieces “Via Crucis” ESCALE CHROMATIQUE Samuel Crowther, conductor Jean-Yves Clément, narrator Marie-Paule Milone, mezzo-soprano Pierre Bleuse et Simon Milone, violins Cécile Grassi, viola Alain Meunier, cello Laurène Durantel, double bass Denis Pascal, piano Florence Sitruk, harp t Lisz Sunday 8 May 2011 at 11 a.m. Abbaye de Royaumont (France) Saturday 14 May 2011 at 9 p.m. Duomo, Bergamo (Italy) Wednesday 20 July 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Church, Arconsat (France) Sunday 9 October 2011 at 3 p.m. Abbaye de Royaumont (France) Wednesday 29 June 2011 at 9 p.m. Cathédral Sainte-Cécile, Albi (France) 2011 Théodore DUBOIS: Agnus Dei – Tantum ergo – Ave Maria – Panis angelicus Franz LISZT: Ave verum – Via Crucis Charles-Valentin ALKAN: Deuxième Verset du Psaume 41 Camille SAINT-SAËNS: La Cloche César FRANCK: Panis angelicus 59 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 LES CRIS DE PARIS LES SOLISTES DES SIÈCLES Thursday 14 July 2011 at 6 p.m. Salle Pasteur, Montpellier (France) Sunday 21 August 2011 at 9 p.m. Chappelle de la Fondation d'Auteuil, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) Friday 26 August 2011 at 8 p.m. Abbatiale de Saint-Ouen, Rouen (France) Geoffroy Jourdain, conductor Chantal Santon, Ève Jennifer Borghi, L’Archange Mathias Vidal, Adam Alain Buet, Satan Cyrille Dubois, Uriel / Jésus Théodore DUBOIS: Le Paradis perdu “Dona eis requiem…” ORCHESTRE DE PICARDIE ACCENTUS Laurence Equilbey, conductor Edwige Parat, soprano Matthew Brook, baritone ussy Deb Tuesday 19 July 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Abbatiale de Saint-Riquier (France) VLAAMS RADIO KOOR Ensemble instrumental Hervé Niquet, conductor Chantal Santon, soprano Jennifer Borghi, mezzo-soprano Mathias Vidal, tenor Benoît Capt, baritone Théodore DUBOIS: Messe pontificale Benedicat vobis Gabriel FAURÉ: Ave verum op. 65/1 Messe basse Émile PALADILHE: Panis angelicus n. 3 Charles GOUNOD: Sancta Maria Saturday 17 September 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église Saint-François, Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) Thursday 26 April 2012 at 8.15 p.m. Jezuïetenkerk, Lier (Belgium) Friday 27 April 2012 at 8.15 p.m. Florakerk, Merelbeke (Belgium) Sunday 29 April 2012 at 5 p.m. Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) 2 201 Pomp and circumstance Gabriel FAURÉ: Requiem Cantique de Jean Racine Claude DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande (prelude) Masses for Saint-Sulpice LE CHŒUR INTERNATIONAL Michel Brousseau, conductor Maria Knapik, soprano Marc Boucher, baritone Christopher Hainsworth, organ Théodore DUBOIS: Messe de la délivrance Messe solennelle de Saint Rémi 60 Tradition and modernity Thursday 18 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Cathédrale de Montpellier (France) Sunday 21 August 2011 at 4 p.m. Église de La Madeleine, Paris (France) Monday 22 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris (France) Thursday 25 August 2011 at 6 p.m. Cathédrale de Metz (France) Saturday 27 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Cathédrale de Reims (France) ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE CHAMBRE DU LUXEMBOURG Chœur Universitaire du Luxembourg Maîtrise de la Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Metz Ars Musica de Nancy Nicolas Brochot, conductor Elena Prokina, soprano Benoît Haller, tenor Jean-Paul Majérus, baritone Tuesday 15 November 2011 at 8 p.m. Arsenal, Metz (France) Ambroise THOMAS: Messe solennelle Romantic organ Diego Innocenzi, organ February 2012 Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston (USA) Théodore DUBOIS, Édouard BAPTISTE, Camille SAINT-SAËNS, César FRANCK: organ pieces 61 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 From Saint-Sulpice to La Madeleine SCHOLA CANTORUM DE HARTFORD SOLI DEO GLORIA ORCHESTRA Ezequiel Menéndez, organ Diego Innocenzi, organ Friday 17, Saturday 18 and Friday 24 February 2012 The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford (USA) Organists of the American Guild of Organists Théodore DUBOIS, Charles GOUNOD, Camille SAINT-SAËNS, César FRANCK: organ pieces LES FILLES DE L’ÎLE – LES CHANTRES MUSICIENS Gilbert Patenaude, conductor Anne Saint-Denis, soprano Marc Boucher, baritone t sene Mas 2 201 “Paradise lost” Monday 20 February 2012 St Ignatius Loyola, New York (USA) Tuesday 21 February 2012 The Brick Presbyterian Church, New York (USA) CHŒUR DE LA SOCIÉTÉ PHILHARMONIQUE DU NOUVEAU MONDE Michel Brousseau, conductor Saturday 26 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Basilica dei Frari, Venice (Italy) Romantic organ Pierpaolo Turetta, organ Théodore DUBOIS, César FRANCK, Charles-Marie WIDOR...: organ pieces Théodore DUBOIS: Douze Pièces pour grand organ (excerpts) Charles-Marie WIDOR: Organ Symphony no. 5 in F sharp minor From Saint-Sulpice to La Madeleine Romantic eternity LES SIÈCLES François-Xavier Roth, conductor Charles GOUNOD: Requiem Jules MASSENET: Scènes alsaciennes Thursday 31 May 2012 Complexe Athéna, La Ferté-Bernard (France) Sunday 3 June 2012 Église, Saint-Lambert (Canada) Théodore DUBOIS: Le Paradis perdu Daniel Roth, organ Romantic organ Friday 1 June 2012 Église, Saint-Lambert (Canada) Théodore DUBOIS et ses contemporains: motets Théodore DUBOIS: Les Sept Paroles du Christ Camille SAINT-SAËNS: motets César FRANCK: motets Romantic organ From Sainte-Clotilde to La Madeleine Diego Innocenzi, organ and conductor NN, soprano Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor NN, bass Sunday 17 June 2012 at 4 p.m. Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris (France) Thursday 20 september 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris (France) Théodore DUBOIS: motets with organ From Saint-Sulpice to La Madeleine MAÎTRISE DE RADIO FRANCE Sofi Jeannin, conductor Diego Innocenzi, organ Sunday 30 september 2012 at 5 p.m. Victoria Hall, Geneva (Switzerland) Théodore DUBOIS, Camille SAINT-SAËNS, Francis POULENC, César FRANCK: motets 62 63 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 The French harp school Boris Grelier, flute Laurent Camatte, viola Marie Normant, harp Musical afternoons and evenings… from four to ten Dominated for a very long time by dramatic works, French music, in the course of the nineteenth century, went through a period of profound questioning of traditional hierarchies. Less concerned about the stage, composers gradually turned to the concert halls and salons – new centres of experimentation, the results of which were soon the admiration of the whole of Europe. Thus, while a new symphonic school was being born, the field of chamber music experienced a keen revival of interest. Furthermore, the radical transformation of musical practice after the Revolution led to a constantly growing demand for novelty from a keen amateur public. To the seminal works of Hyacinthe Jadin, Cherubini and Onslow (the undisputed master of French chamber music at the time of Berlioz) were gradually added the equally ambi- tious opuses of Reber, David, Gouvy, Farrenc, Saint-Saëns, then Fauré, Debussy and Ravel – challenging works, difficult to perform, which favoured the emergence of professional ensembles. To such ensembles Dubois dedicated several of the essential works in his corpus of chamber music, in which the two string quartets in particular show a wealth of inspiration. More curious, but no less interesting, the Nonette (for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and string quintet) and the Dixtuor (the instruments of the nonet plus a horn) are lengthy pieces, with a formal conception and a gravity that come as a surprise in this repertoire. Thursday 2 June 2011 at 4 p.m. Église, Dominois (France) ussy Deb 201 2 Théodore DUBOIS: Fantasietta Michel TOURNIER: Vers la source dans le bois Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Le Cygne Claude DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola and harp The Romantic trumpet Friday 22 July 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église, Rue (France) CONVERGENCES Romain Leleu, trumpet Théodore DUBOIS: Fantaisie for trumpet and strings (transcription) Georges BIZET: Andantino for string quintet Charles GOUNOD: Prière for trumpet and strings Camille SAINT-SAËNS: String Quartet op. 112 (Andante) Official art and modernity QUATUOR RAPHAËL Pierre Fouchenneret et Pablo Schatzman, violins Arnaud Thorette, viola Maja Bogdanovic, cello ussy Deb 201 2 Sunday 24 July 2011 at 6 p.m. Abbaye de Valloires (France) Saturday 28 April 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Saturday 12 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux (France) Théodore DUBOIS: String Quartet no. 2 Claude DEBUSSY: String Quartet 64 65 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Carnival, french style LES SOLISTES DES SIÈCLES Claire Désert and Marie-Josèphe Jude, piano Théodore DUBOIS: Dixtuor Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Le Carnaval des animaux Wagner in Paris Students of the Hautes Écoles de Musique de Genève et de Lausanne Rémy Campos et Aurélien Poidevin, coordination Alain Zaepffel, director (actors) Laurent Gay, musical director Tuesday 20 September 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Côte d’Albâtre (France) Wednesday 28 September 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église Saint-Maurice, Salins-les-Bains (France) Thursday 29 September 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre Edwige Feuillère, Vesoul (France) Tuesday 15 November 2011 at 2.30 p.m. Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne (France) Thursday 8 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église, Saint-Cannat-les-Prêcheurs, Marseille (France) Wednesday 29 February 2012 at 8 p.m. Amphitheatre, Cité de la musique, Paris (France) March 2012 Theatre, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March 2012 Amphitheatre de l’Opéra Bastille, Paris (France) QUATUOR DIOTIMA Yun-Peng Zhao, Naaman Sluchin, violins Franck Chevalier, viola Pierre Morlet, cello Philippe Bernold, flute Emmanuel Ceysson, harp Svetlin Roussev, violin Miguel Da Silva, viola Henri Demarquette, cello May 2012 Le Mans (France) ussy Deb 201 2 Théodore DUBOIS: Fantasietta Jean CRAS: Quintet Claude DEBUSSY: Sonata Carnival, french style QUATUOR DEBUSSY Christophe Collette, Dorian Lamotte violins Vincent Deprecq, viola Fabrice Bihan, cello Thursday 31 May 2012 La Ferté-Bernard (France) Saturday 2 June 2012 Le Mans (France) Claire Désert and Emmanuel Strosser, piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Le Carnaval des animaux Théodore DUBOIS: Piano Quintet Dubois and opera Richard WAGNER: Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg (French version by Alfred Ernst, 1897) – Act III, Scene 1 Conservatoire versus Schola cantorum The romantic harp Saturday 2 June 2012 Church, Saint-Lambert (Canada) CHŒUR DE LA SOCIÉTÉ PHILHARMONIQUE DU NOUVEAU MONDE Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor Saturday 28 April 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) June 2012 Château d’Hardelot (France) Théodore DUBOIS: Aben Hamet Théodore DUBOIS: String Quartet no. 1 Vincent D’INDY: String Quartet 66 67 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Piano Quintet Sunday 10 July 2011 at 4.30 p.m. Église, Oneux (France) Saturday 15 October 2011 at 6 p.m. Arsenal, Metz (France) Sunday 4 December 2011 Saint-Nicolas des Lorrains, Rome (Italy) Friday 23 March 2012 at 8.30 p.m. Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) Saturday 14 April 2012 at 8 p.m. Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) QUATUOR ARDEO Olivia Hughes, Carole Petitdemange, violins Caroline Donin, viola Joëlle Martinez, cello David Violi, piano Around the piano The piano lost no time in ousting the violin to become the favourite instrument of the Romantics. That resulted in a growing practice which brought about a radical change in the usual balances in musical writing. By turns a soloist, an accompanist or a member of the ensemble like an orchestral musician, the keyboard opened up new horizons for the hitherto predominant string quartet and quintet. Théodore Dubois, more than others, paid an enthusiastic tribute to the repertoire for solo piano or for piano with other instruments. In this corpus his Piano Sonata, Les Heures, his Poèmes alpestres and Poèmes sylvestres and the more experimental Poèmes virgiliens stand out. For keyboard and other instruments, Dubois left two sonatas (one for violin and the other for cello), two trios, a quartet, an original quintet in which 68 he used an oboe in place of one of the violins, and several miniatures with colourful titles, such as the touching Promenade sentimentale for violin, cello and piano. All of them interesting, these pieces were composed for the most part between 1890 and 1920, just before and during the composer’s retirement. He completed one of his two string quartets at the age of eighty. In many respects these works undoubtedly deserve the revival that has only recently begun through recordings and concerts. Dubois also left many arrangements of his orchestral music for piano four hands; these were carefully transcribed and expertly ratified by his wife, the virtuoso pianist Jeanne Duvinage. Théodore DUBOIS: Piano Quintet Reynaldo HAHN: Piano Quintet The French violin school Elsa Grether, violin Eliane Reyes, piano ussy Deb Gabriel PIERNÉ: Sonata for violin and piano op. 36 Théodore DUBOIS: Sonata for violin and piano Gabriel FAURÉ: Les Berceaux Alfred BRUNEAU: Romance in F major Claude DEBUSSY: Printemps 201 2 Saturday 16 July 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Église, Palladuc (France) Saturday 21 April 2012 at 8 p.m. Abbaye, Talloires (France) Thursday 17 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Saturday 7 July 2012 at 8 p.m. Salle de l’Harmonie de Verviers (Belgium) Thursday 12 July 2012 at 12.15 p.m. Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (Belgium) Friday 13 July 2012 at 12.15 p.m. 30CC / Centre culturel de Leuven (Belgium) Saturday 14 July 2012 Festival des Forêts (France) Saturday 1 September 2012 at 7 p.m. Serres d’Auteuil, Paris (France) 69 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 The French piano school Tuesday 26 July 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église, Argoules (France) ussy Deb Mara Dobresco, piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Six Bagatelles op. 3 Théodore DUBOIS: Scherzo and Chorale op. 18 Frédéric CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantaisie op. 61 Claude DEBUSSY: Pour le piano 201 “Vers le cimes...” Claire Hamon, piano 2 201 Wednesday 27 July 2011 at 7 p.m. Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) Maja Bogdanovic, cello Julien Gernay, piano ussy Deb 201 2 Théodore DUBOIS: Cavatina – Andante cantabile Claude DEBUSSY: Sonata for cello and piano Gabriel FAURÉ: Romance – Papillon – Élégie Reinhold GLIÈRE: Trois Pièces op. 51 201 Thursday 28 July 2011 at 7 p.m. Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) 2 “Salon des Refusés” QUATUOR SATIE Frédérique Aurier, Julie Friez, violins Patrick Oriol, viola Guillaume Lafeuille, cello Laurent Martin, piano 2 Théodore DUBOIS: Vers les cimes (from Les Poèmes alpestres) Gabriel FAURÉ: Berceuse Jules MASSENET: Méditation de Thaïs Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie Miniatures ussy Deb Théodore DUBOIS: Postlude triste – À Cache-cache (excerpts from Ombre et Lumière) Frédéric CHOPIN: Scherzo no. 4 op. 54 Claude DEBUSSY: Hommage à Rameau t sene Mas Charles Quentin de Gromard, violin Louise Akili, piano The French harp school Saturday 30 July 2011 at 8.45 p.m. Église, Escoutoux (France) Sunday 20 May 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Théodore DUBOIS: Piano Quartet in D minor Fernand DE LA TOMBELLE: Piano Quartet in E minor René LENORMAND: Suite op. 27 for piano and string quartet (Intermezzo) Wednesday 27 July 2011 at 9 p.m. Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) Piano trio TRIO CHAUSSON Philippe Talec, violin Antoine Landowski, cello Boris de Larochelambert, piano Friday 7 October 2011 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) Saturday 14 April 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) May 2012 Le Mans (France) Théodore DUBOIS: Piano Trio no. 2 Cécile CHAMINADE: Piano Trio no. 2 70 71 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 French piano Romain Descharmes, piano Wednesday 30 November 2011 at 6.30 p.m. Centre Culturel de la Sarthe – Abbaye de L’Épau (France) Théodore DUBOIS: Piano Sonata Emmanuel CHABRIER: Pièces pittoresques Maurice RAVEL: La Valse – Valses nobles et sentimentales “Pièces pittoresques” Masters and models May 2012 Le Mans (France) Léon BOËLLMANN: Cello Sonata Charles KŒCHLIN: Pieces for cello and piano Théodore DUBOIS: Pieces for cello and piano Théodore DUBOIS: Cello Sonata Fernand DE LA TOMBELLE: Andante expressivo Gabriel FAURÉ: Élégie César FRANCK: Cello Sonata 72 Saturday 19 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Maria Tomassi, soprano Jennifer Borghi, mezzo-soprano Giulio Zappa, piano Gary Hoffman, cello David Seilig, piano Marc Coppey, cello François-Frédéric Guy, piano TRIO PORTICI Stéphane De May, piano Damien Pardoen, violin Luc Tooten, cello May 2012 Le Mans (France) Emmanuel CHABRIER, Théodore DUBOIS: piano pieces Cello: La Belle Époque Sunday 6 May 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Théodore DUBOIS: Promenade sentimentale Alphonse DUVERNOY: Piano Trio in E minor George PFEIFFER: Piano Trio no. 3 Emmanuel Strosser, piano Romantic cello “Alla tedesca…” Thursday 3 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Jules MASSENET: Le Cid (air, Chimène) Giuseppe VERDI: Les Vêpres siciliennes (Boléro, d’Hélène) Victor MASSÉ: Paul et Virginie (duet) Giacomo MEYERBEER: Le Prophète (air, Fidès) Ambroise THOMAS: Psyché (duet) Victorin JONCIÈRES: Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi (air, Nydia) Louis NIEDERMEYER: La Fronde (air, Hélène) Orchestral piano Sunday 27 May 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Carole Dubois and Olivier Godin, piano Théodore DUBOIS: pieces for piano 4 hands Adonis – Symphonie française – Un Momento d’allegrezza – Suite villageoise 73 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Paris, the Romantic hours Cyrille Dubois, tenor Philippe Huttenlocher, bass Marie-Josèphe Jude and Anne Le Bozec, piano Pierre Bleuse, Éric Lacrouts and Simon Milone, violins Cécile Grassi, viola Laurène Durantel, double bass The “mélodie”, a chamber opera? In the hierarchy of repertoires, the French mélodie stands at the summit. Its fair assessment requires great understanding of poetry and appreciation of detail. Symbolist thoughts or, at the other extreme, lines borrowed from Ronsard or Villon, make it into a genre that is above all literary. The art of a composer such as Théodore Dubois enables us to reassess its progression and the stages in its maturation, at the intersection of two radically different but closely related worlds: those of the romance and of the mélodie itself. Born in 1837, Dubois could not ignore the specificities of the romance that was performed in the salons. Having appeared in the late eighteenth century, it had become more theatrical during the period of the July Monarchy. The romance was then a strophic genre implying frequent repetition of the same 74 music. More lyrical in substance, supported by a piano accompaniment that is more closely related to the text, the French mélodie is first and foremost a literary genre. It is often presented in cycles, which may be narrative or more evocative. Dubois is a perfect representative of the most “Romantic” period of the French mélodie – the period that was unceremoniously swept aside by the symbolism of Debussy, who regarded it as outdated and superficial. Yet judging by Dubois’s literary choices, he held this repertoire in particularly high esteem, readily colouring it with genuine sadness or infectious joy. t Lisz Thursday 30 June 2011 at 9 p.m. Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rayssac, Albi (France) 2011 Théodore DUBOIS: Musiques sur l’eau Richard STRAUSS: Das Schloß am Meer Franz LISZT: Trois Sonnets de Pétrarque – Malédiction Hector BERLIOZ: Le Spectre de la rose Giovanni BOTTESINI: Grand Duo concertant L’Armée des Romantiques L’ARMÉE DES ROMANTIQUES Magali Léger, soprano Alain Buet, baritone Alexis Kossenko, flute Emmanuel Balssa, cello Rémy Cardinale, piano Théodore DUBOIS: mélodies Andante cantabile for cello and piano Andante appassionato for cello and piano Suite sur des poèmes virgiliens for flute and piano Gabriel FAURÉ: mélodies Fantaisie for flute and piano Sicilienne for cello and piano Camille SAINT-SAËNS: mélodies Romance for flute and piano Allegro appassionato for cello and piano Sunday 3 July 2011 Maladredie Saint-Lazare, Beauvais (France) Friday 22 July 2011 at 8 p.m. Église, Simorre (France) Sunday 24 July 2011 at 5 p.m. Église, Tillac (France) Tuesday 8 May 2012 at 8 p.m. Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) Sunday 20 May 2012 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) 75 FESTIVAL «THÉODORE DUBOIS AND official art» | 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Romantic Europe Cyrille Dubois, tenor Tristan Raës, piano Saturday 23 July 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église, Vron (France) Théodore DUBOIS: Musiques sur l’eau Sergei RACHMANINOV: Six Mélodies Robert SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe Dubois and the “mélodie” Marc Boucher, baritone Carole Dubois, piano Friday 26 August 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Église Saint-Jacques, Reims (France) Théodore DUBOIS: mélodies and piano pieces “Musique sur l’eau… ” Jean-François Rouchon, baritone Billy Eidi, piano Théodore DUBOIS: Daphnis (from Poèmes virgiliens) Le Chevrier (from Poèmes virgiliens) L'Allée solitaire – La Source enchantée (from Poèmes virgiliens) Musique sur l’eau (excerpts) Désiré-Emile INGHELBRECHT: Au Jardin de l’Infante (excerpts) Florent SCHMITT: Musique sur l’eau Jacques de LA PRESLE: Heures d’été (excerpts) Charles KŒCHLIN: Accompagnement – Soir païen Louis AUBERT: Silence – L’Âme errante Gabriel FAURÉ: Arpège – Accompagnement – Soir 76 April 2012 Auditorium, Nantes Conservatoire (France) May 2012 Monthodon (France) May 2012 Fondazione Siotto, Cagliari (Italy) Saturday 26 May 2012 at 5 p.m. Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) September 2012 Festival de La Chaise-Dieu (France) September 2012 Salle Varèse, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon (France) OPERA and ballet The tragédie lyrique and the ballet, born in the eighteenth century under Louis XIV, were specifically French genres. This form of total theatre, involving poetry, music, dance, scenery, costumes, and machinery showing an unprecedented degree of ingenuity, gradually evolved over the years into the grand opera that was to be the envy of Europe, admired by composers from Wagner to Verdi. The first signs of Romanticism were present even before the Revolution, in the works composed at that time by Gluck and his contemporaries, among whom Grétry was one of the most innovative, following in the footsteps of the all too little-known Lemoyne, Fontenelle, Catel and Gossec, whose works reflect the paradoxical sensitivity of that period of change, torn between nostalgia for the great moments of the reign Louis XIV and the cult of modernity and progress. Music whose ambitions were already “Romantic” and whose truly unprecedented accents brought out the passions of the former Classical age in a completely new way. Italian musicians, who had begun to arrive in Paris during the reign of Louis XVI, stood at the forefront among operatic composers, and it is to them that early Romanticism owes some of its flavour and personality. The generation of Piccinni and Sacchini introduced France to the international style of that time, which Salieri transcended with the original orchestral effects, strong pathos and drama that so impressed the young Berlioz. A few years later, under the Empire, Spontini created operas that were in keeping with the prevailing taste of those years for monumentality and pomp. During the same period Cherubini became famous in France and far beyond, and the young Beethoven chose him as a model. Having moved to Paris, Rossini composed the crowning achievement of his career, his last operatic work, Guillaume Tell (preceded by a spectacular Moïse et Pharaon), considered to be one of the first French grand operas and taken as a model by Auber (La Muette de Portici), then Donizetti and later Verdi. Berlioz was a direct “descendant” of Gluck and his contemporaries: as a young man he had been deeply impressed by the works of Gluck, going so far as to declare that Gluck was the first Romantic. He was particularly excited too by the great interpreters of that repertoire, from Sophie Arnould to Cornélie Falcon, and including Caroline Branchu and Julie-Angélique Scio, who embodied the characters created for them by Gluck, Méhul, Cherubini and Spontini with a vocal virtuosity and heroism the likes of which had never been heard in France before. 79 OPERA AND BALLET Fromental HALÉVY La Magicienne (1858) Monday 11 July 2011 at 8 p.m. Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier (France) Maurice RAVEL (arranged by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) L’Heure espagnole ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE MONTPELLIER CHŒUR DE RADIO FRANCE Lawrence Foster, musical director Nora Amsellem, Blanche Marianne Crebassa, Mélusine Frédéric Antoun, René Marc Barrard, Stello Jennifer Michel, Aloïs Nicolas Cavallier, Comte de Poitou Production Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française François Leroux, artistic director, stage director Marc Claerbout, stage design Pierre Martinez, costumes Philippe Biros et Jeff Cohen, piano 4 hands and chorusmasters Anna Destraël/Mariam Gegechkory, Concepcion Ronan Debois/Mickaël Guedj, Ramiro Johnny Esteban/David Guilardi, Gonzalve Geoffroy Buffière/Arnaud Guillou, Inigo Ronan Meyblum, Torquemada Charles-Simon CATEL Sémiramis (1802) Monday 25 July 2011 at 8 p.m. Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier (France) Coproduction Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française and Festival de Radio France et Montpellier LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL Hervé Niquet, conductor Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Sémiramis Sarah Pagin, Azéma José Ferrero, Arzace Nicolas Courjal, Assur Andrew Foster-Williams, Oroès Louis-Ferdinand HÉROLD La Belle au bois dormant (1829) BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC Hervé Niquet, conductor 80 tier Gau 2011 Wednesday 28 September 2011 at 8 p.m. Théâtre musical, Besançon (France) Production Festival de Besançon in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française Ambroise THOMAS Françoise de Rimini (1882) ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LORRAINE CHORUS AND BALLET OF THE OPERA-THEATRE DE METZ Jacques Mercier, musical director Vincent Tordjman, staging and decors Christelle Birot, costumes Lucas Manganelli, choreography Nicolas Boudier, lighting Catherine Hunold, Francesca Gilles Ragon, Paolo Olivier Grand, Malatesta Jérôme Varnier, Guido Delphine Haidan, Ascanio Eugénie Danglade, Virgile Carlos Aguirre, Dante Sunday 2 October 2011 at 4 p.m. Auditorium Maurice Ravel, LevalloisPerret (France) Saturday 8 October 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre du Centre municipal des loisirs, Montfort L'Anaury (France) Sunday 16 October 2011 at 11 a.m. Chapelle du Méjean, Arles (France) Production Académie de Villecroze in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française Friday 18, Sunday 20 and Tuesday 22 November 2011 Opéra-Théâtre de Metz (France) Production Opéra-Théâtre de Metz in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française 81 OPERA AND BALLET Johann Christian BACH Amadis de Gaule (1779) LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIE COMPAGNIE DE DANSE LES CAVATINES BALLET AND CHORUS OF THE SNG OPERA AND BALLET LJUBLJANA Jérémie Rhorer, musical director Marcel Bozonnet, staging Antoine Fontaine, stage design and decors Renato Bianchi, costumes Dominique Bruguière, lighting Natalie Van Parys, choreography Hélène Guilmette, Oriane Philippe Do, Amadis Allyson McHardy, Arcabonne Franco Pomponi, Arcalaüs Julie Fuchs, Urgande Claude DEBUSSY / Gabriele D'ANNUNZIO Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien ussy Deb BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC VLAAMS RADIO KOOR Chœur Symphonique Octopus Michel Tabachnik, conductor Jean-Philippe Clarac, Olivier Deloeuil, staging and images Micha Lescot, Le Saint Karen Vourc’h, La Mère Eric Bougnon, Le Père Blanche Konrad, La Bonne Pauline Sabatier, Marie Kalinine, Les Jumeaux 82 2 201 Thursday 24, Saturday 26 and Monday 28 November 2011 at 8 p.m. Theatre, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Saturday 10 and Monday 12 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles Monday 2, Wednesday 4, Friday 6 January 2012 at 8 p.m. and Sunday 8 January 2012 at 3 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Delegate producer: SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana (Slovenia) Executive producer: Opéra Comique Co-produced by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles – Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française Tuesday 31 January 2011 at 8 p.m. Concert hall of the Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) Production Cité de la musique in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française Georges BIZET Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE ACCENTUS Leo Hussain, musical director Yoshi Oïda, stage director Daniela Kurz, choreography and staging Tom Schenk, sets Richard Hudson, costumes Fabrice Kebourg, lighting Sonya Yoncheva, Leïla Dmitri Korchak, Nadir André Heyboer, Zurga Nicolas Testé, Nourabad Gioachino ROSSINI Guillaume Tell (1829) CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE STAATSTHEATER NÜRNBERG SUPERNUMERARIES OF THE STAATSTHEATER NÜRNBERG Guido Johannes Rumstadt, musical director Elisabeth Stöppler, stage director Hermann Feuchter, stage design Nicole Pleuler, costumes Tarmo Vaas, chorusmaster Sonja Westerbeck, drama coach Nicolai Karnolsky, Gesler NN, Rodolphe Martin Berner/Jochen Kupfer, Guillaume Tell NN, Walther Furst Uwe Stickert, Arnold Melcthal Vladislav Solodyagin, Melcthal NN, Leuthold Hrachuhi Bássenz/Leah Solodyagin, Mathilde de Habsbourg Anna Lapkovskaja/Leila Pfister, Hedwige Michaela Maria Mayer/Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Jemmy Tilman Lichdi/Martin Nyvall, Ruodi Monday 18, Wednesday 20, Friday 22, Tuesday 26, Thursday 28 June 2012 at 8 p.m. Sunday 24 June 2012 at 3 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Production Opéra Comique Co-produced by the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv Associate co-producer Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française Saturday 3, Saturday 10, Monday 12, Saturday 24 March, Wednesday 4 April, Thursday 31 May, Tuesday 26 June 2012 at 7.30 p.m. Sunday 18 March and Sunday 6 May 2012 at 7 p.m. Sunday 15 April 2012 at 3.30 p.m. Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) Production Staatstheater Nürnberg in partnership with Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française 83 OPERA AND BALLET Daniel-François Esprit AUBER La Muette de Portici (1828) ORCHESTRE ET CHŒUR DU THÉÂTRE ROYAL DE LA MONNAIE Patrick Davin, musical director Emma Dante, stage director Carmine Maringola, sets Vanessa Sannino, costumes and sets NN, lighting Manuela Lo Sicco, choreography Sandro Maria Campagna, fencing master Elena Borgogni, Fenella Maxim Mironov, Alphonse Eglise Gutierrez, Elvire NN, Masaniello Franck Leguérinel, Pietro NN, Borella Jean Teitgen, Selva Martial Defontaine, Lorenzo 84 tier Gau 2011 Thursday 5, Saturday 7, Wednesday 11 and Friday 13 April 2012 at 8 p.m. Monday 9 and Sunday 15 April 2012 at 3 p.m. Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Production Opéra Comique Coproduction Théâtre royal de la Monnaie Associate co-producer Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES 85 SYMPOSIA JULY 2011 Conducting in the nineteenth century (La Spezia, Italy) AUGUST 2011 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music (La Côte-Saint-André, France) SeptembER 2011 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century (Briosco, Italy) OctobER 2011 Théophile Gautier and the Second Empire (Compiègne, France) Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity (Tours and Paris, France) DEcembER 2011 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) 86 (Lucca, Italy) JaNUARY 2012 Opera and cultural transfers (1760-1800) (Paris, France) (Tours and Paris, France) Music in Naples during the “French decade” (1806-1815) MarCH 2012 Rousseau’s Dictionary of Music and its reception in Europe (Paris, France) APril 2012 The Paris Conservatoire under the directorships of Thomas, Dubois and Fauré (1871-1920) (Paris, France) (Paris, France) “Grand opéra”: a genre and a model JuNE 2012 Exoticism and opera (Paris, France) 87 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | SYMPOSIA JULY 2011 Conducting in the nineteenth century From Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 July 2011 Centro d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (La Spezia, Italy) Scientific committee: Andrea Barizza (La Spezia); Alexandre Dratwicki (Venice); Lorenzo Frassà (Lucca); Roberto Illiano (Lucca); Fulvia Morabito (Lucca); Michela Niccolai (Montréal); Massimiliano Sala (Pistoia) In collaboration with the Società dei Concerti (La Spezia) and the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) AUGUST 2011 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music G er auti 2011 From Wednesday 24 to Saturday 27 August 2011 Musée Hector Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André (France) In collaboration with the Centre Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Langues et Sociétés (University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis), the Observatoire Musical Français (Paris-Sorbonne), the Centre International de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Ethnomusicologie de la France, the Festival Berlioz (La Côte-Saint-André) and the Isère General Council 88 With the constant demands of the Romantic movement for more volume, dynamics and virtuosity, the nineteenth-century orchestra needed a conductor. Previously the batteur de mesure – there to make the time-beat audible – had presided over the instruments of the Opéra, before the adoption during the Classical period of the Italian practice of having the first violin lead the ensemble. The exact identity of the conductor, who became central to musical life in Europe, was yet to be defined. Was he there simply to coordinate the performance of a work technically, or was his role to guarantee a musical policy (from repertoire to performance)? Benefiting from the experience accumulated by the great pioneers – conductors-cum-virtuosos, such as Clementi, Paganini, Liszt, Spohr, or conductor-composers, such as Weber, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Charpentier, Mahler – his status evolved in the course of the century. A better understanding of this profession enables the adoption of a different, more subtle, approach to the Romantic repertoire. The aim of this symposium, involving musicology and ethnomusicology, is to introduce a multidisciplinary reflection on the notion of “otherness” in nineteenth-century music. It will question the construction of that notion as well as its historiography, its impact on a new, "erudite" form of musical composition, and the broadening of new, multicultural musical horizons in the West. Two fundamental issues will serve as a guide: firstly, why Western composers have been so irresistibly attracted to – and stunned by – “other” music; secondly, the reception of dominant musical and instrumental models, sometimes foreign, by Europe’s various “popular” musical cultures. Septembre 2011 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century t Lisz 2011 From Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October 2011 Villa Medici Giulini, Briosco (Italy) Scientific committee: Alexandre Dratwicki (Venice); Nicolas Dufetel (Weimar-Jena / Angers); Lorenzo Frassà (Lucca); Roberto Illiano (Lucca); Fulvia Morabito (Lucca); Luca Sala (Paris / Poitiers); Massimiliano Sala (Pistoia) In collaboration with the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini and Villa Medici Giulini (Briosco) OctobER 2011 Théophile Gautier and the Second Empire Thursday 13 and Friday 14 October 2011 Palais impérial, Compiègne (France) tier Gau 2011 Scientific committee: Anne Geisler (Université d’Évry); Martine Lavaud (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne); Françoise Melmoux-Montaubin (Université Jules Verne, Amiens); Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin (Université Montpellier III); Marie-Ève Thérenty (Université Montpellier III); Paolo Tortonese (Université Paris III) In collaboration with the Association du bicentenaire Gautier and the Château imperial, Compiègne Franz Liszt – virtuoso pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and traveller – was the epitome of the the musician who lived on a European scale. In the nineteenth century, amazing progress in instrument making and music publishing encouraged the circulation to the most important artistic centres of the time (Paris, Vienna, London...) of both musicians and musical works. Although national schools of music were then gradually emerging, is it possible to identify a “European sound”, resulting from musicians’ encounters with the aesthetics of the countries they visited? This question will be answered after an examination of playing techniques, changing tastes and the details of musicians’ tours. In 2011, for the bicentenary of the birth of Théophile Gautier, there will be national commemorations and a very rich cultural programme, including seminars, talks, exhibitions, performances, museum displays, concerts... all of them initiatives supported by private or public institutions, including the French Ministry of Culture. These events will provide an opportunity to rediscover the journalistic output of this writer, who was particularly active during the Second Empire. A body of literature that represents almost three thousand press articles, in the form of narrative and critical texts presented in serial form or accounts of his travels. For forty years Gautier was an excellent art critic and a well-informed theatre, opera and ballet-goer: an invaluable witness for contemporary historians of the stage and the Fine Arts in Paris at that time. 89 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | SYMPOSIA OctobER 2011 Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity From Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 October 2011 Université François Rabelais (Tours) and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l'Armée (Invalides, Paris) Scientific committee: Damien Colas (IRPMF) France; Alessandro Di Profio (Université François-Rabelais / IRPMF); Pierre Milza (Institut d’Études Politiques) In collaboration with the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (CNRS), the Université François Rabelais (Tours) and the Musée de l'Armée (Invalides, Paris). DEcembER 2011 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) From Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 December 2011 Palazzo Ducale, Lucca (Italy) Scientific committee: Alexandre Dratwicki (Venice); Lorenzo Frassà (Lucca); Roberto Illiano (Lucca); Fulvia Morabito (Lucca); Rudolf Rasch (Utrecht); Luca Sala (Paris/Poitiers); Massimiliano Sala (Pistoia); Christian Speck (Koblenz) In collaboration with Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) 90 Italian unity, the 150th anniversary of which is celebrated in 2011 (1861-2011), marked the culmination of a political project, which had previously been supported by a cultural project that had paved the way for it, the aim being to prove that over the centuries Italy had been forged by its language and its artistic production. And opera, through its impact on a socially and geographically diverse population, was one of the tools in the building of unity. At the time when the peninsula was still fragmented politically, the finest operatic works circulated from theatre to theatre, cementing identities. This symposium brings to a close a series of talks held at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. It forms part of the exhibition entitled “Napoleon III, the French, and Italian Unity (1848-1870)”, organised by the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. Noticed in Vienna and at the Concert Spirituel in Paris, employed in Madrid by Infante Don Luis of Spain (1769), admired by King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, who appointed him composer of his Chamber (1786)... like many Italians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Luigi Boccherini sought confirmation of his early success in different parts of Europe. Permeable to Viennese and Parisian musical influences, he was also a bearer of the Italian musical tradition, and he played a part in the renewal of Classical chamber music. The amazing production of this great virtuoso cellist deserves to be reassessed within the context of late eighteenth-century European music: artistic interactions, instrument making, music publishing and the reception of his works by his contemporaries. JANUARY 2012 Opera and cultural transfers (1760-1800) Thursday 19 and Friday 20 January 2012 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Scientific committee: Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru Zane) and Agnès Terrier (Opéra Comique) In collaboration with the Opéra Comique JANUARY 2012 Music in Naples during the “French decade” (1806-1815) From Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 January 2012 Université François Rabelais, Tours (France) and Auditorium Austerlitz du Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) Scientific committee: Mariafederica Castaldo (Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini); Rosanna Cioffi (Seconda Università di Napoli); Damien Colas (IRPMF); Francesco Cotticelli (Seconda Università di Napoli); Alessandro Di Profio (Université François-Rabelais – IRPMF); Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru Zane); Paologiovanni Maione (Conservatorio D. Cimarosa, Avellino) Opera production in France was in turn a factor of national identity and cultural influence. While institutions attracted musicians from the rest of the continent, librettos and scores were exported, disseminating the French model. Two angles of study intersect and complement each other: the question of the mixed nature of European styles, at the junction of Italian, Germanic and French influences, and the establishment of a market economy based on translation but also on adaptation to national concerns often tinged with politics. This symposium will discuss Paris’s role as the capital of opera at the end of the Enlightenment and its relations with the major European musical centres. It follows an from the symposium of April 2011 devoted to the 1800-1840 period. Under Joseph Bonaparte, then Joachim Murat, the kingdom of Naples experienced, during what to historians is known as the “French decade” (1806-1815), a policy of reforms strongly inspired by the Parisian model. This period favoured the acclimatisation of the French repertoire in the city and encouraged Italians to develop a new sensitivity not only for the dance, but also for theatre acting. Sacred music and ceremonial music in Naples were equally inspired by the French tradition. The first part of this symposium will be devoted to a study of the repertoire; the second part will explore the artistic and political contexts with an interdisciplinary approach calling upon historians, art historians, literary historians and philosophers. In collaboration with the Institut de recherche sur le patrimoine musical en France (CNRS), Université François Rabelais, Musée de l’Armée (Invalides, Paris) and the Société française de musicologie 91 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | SYMPOSIA MarCH 2012 Rousseau’s Dictionary of Music and its reception in Europe Thursday 29 and Friday 30 March 2012 Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris (France) Scientific committee: Jean-Pierre Bartoli (Université Paris-Sorbonne); Jacques Berchtold (Université de Genève); Guillaume Bordry (Université Paris-Descartes); Brenno Boccadoro (Université de Genève); Francis Claudon (Université Paris 12 Créteil); Claude Dauphin (Université du Québec à Montréal); Béatrice Didier (Ecole Normale Supérieure); Emmanuel Reibel (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre); Jeanne Roudet (Université ParisSorbonne); Jean-Paul Sermain (Université Paris 3) In this year of the tercentenary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), this symposium aims to show that his Dictionnaire de Musique is not just an eighteenthcentury musical lexicography, but that, more widely, it questions transcultural and trans-artistic comparatism, musical historiography, the history of taste and aesthetics. The symposium will pose the question of the specificity of this dictionary compared to other, similar or contemporary works, and look into the history of its editions, translations, readings and uses, particularly in the Romantic era. Finally, the reception of the Dictionnaire will be studied, and the image and status Rousseau gradually acquired through the work. In collaboration with the Centre de littérature et poétique comparées (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris April 2012 “Grand opéra”: a genre and a model Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 April 2012 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) tier Gau 2011 Scientific committee: Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru Zane) and Agnès Terrier (Opéra Comique) In collaboration with the Opéra Comique JuNE 2012 Exoticism and opera APril 2012 The Paris Conservatoire under the directorships of Ambroise Thomas, Théodore Dubois and Gabriel Fauré (1871-1920) April 2012 Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (Paris, France) Scientific committee: Anne Bongrain (CNSMDP); Rémy Campos (CNSMDP); Dominique Hausfater (CNSMDP); Étienne Jardin (Palazzetto Bru Zane); Aurélien Poidevin (Université de Rouen) In collaboration with the Paris Conservatoire, CNSMDP 92 Although it corresponds to the emergence of the Conservatoire as we know it today, the period covered by the directorships of Ambroise Thomas, Théodore Dubois and Gabriel Fauré is particularly inadequately known. Yet it was then that the school’s international reputation was confirmed, especially through the musicians trained there, with Capet, Enesco, Cortot, Thibaud, Lubin, Long and others playing a part in the worldwide reputation of higher musical education in France. Hitherto neglected in favour of study of the major contemporary aesthetic issues that took centre stage at the Paris Conservatoire (in particular the antagonism between academicism and the avant-garde), the actual functioning of the establishment needs to be studied in order to assess its impact on the history of music. Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 June 2012 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Scientific committee: Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru Zane) and Agnès Terrier (Opéra Comique) In collaboration with the Opéra Comique Following the success on stage at the Académie Royale de Musique of Auber’s La Muette de Portici (1828) and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell (1829), Europe was fired with enthusiasm for a spectacular genre that was both moving and eloquent. From the tragédie lyrique of the First Empire grand opera retained an inclination for the epic and for immoderation, but it also introduced the more modern sensibilities of Italian vocalità and the thrill of fiction. From Rossini to Wagner and Verdi, composers followed the lead of Parisian musicians in adapting historical subjects to opera. This trend had repercussions on and favoured the development of a heroic vocal style, instrument making and theatrical techniques as a whole. A new operatic economy was established on a continental scale. Contemporaneous with the expansion of the great colonial empires, some operas, such as Félicien David’s Lalla-Roukh, Lakmé by Léo Delibes, Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore and Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles, heralded and strengthened the vogue for exoticism in the arts in the second half of the nineteenth century. In exoticism (and its corollaries orientalism and regionalism), opera found the means to renew (and even reinvent) itself. Fantasised first of all, foreign art gradually began to be studied in situ and imported, if not identically, at least with genuine concern for realism, visual or aural. Shortly before the great world exhibitions, did such operas, based on exotic subjects, still reflect Western society? 93 VALORISATION OF DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS: ARCHIVAL STORAGE, CATALOGUING AND DIGITISATION The Palazzetto Bru Zane encourages institutions holding documentary collections relating to music of the French Romantic period to enhance those collections and facilitate access for researchers and musicians. To that end, appropriate international partnerships have been set up with the aim of assisting in the work of cataloguing and digitisation. ACADÉMIE DE FRANCE À ROME – VILLA MEDICI (ROME, ITALY) CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE – MUSÉE DE LA MUSIQUE (PARIS, FRANCE) CONSERVATOIRE DE MUSIQUE DE GENÈVE – HAUTE ÉCOLE DE MUSIQUE (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPÉRIEUR DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE DE PARIS / MÉDIATHÈQUE HECTOR BERLIOZ (PARIS, FRANCE) INSTITUT THÉODORE GOUVY (HOMBOURG-HAUT, FRANCE) PRIVATE ARCHIVES 94 95 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | ValoriZation of documentary collections ACADÉMIE DE FRANCE À ROME – VILLA MEDICI (ROME, ITALY) Precious musical collections In 2010-2011, a partnership between these two institutions led to the listing, cataloguing and partial digitisation of the precious musical collections of the Villa Medici library (published scores and manuscripts), which will eventually enable a study of the culture of the winners of the Prix de Rome staying at the Villa Medici in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Correspondence of Charles Gounod www.villamedici.it www.mediatheque.cnsmdp.fr Almost three thousand letters written or received by Charles Gounod are preserved in the Médiathèque (Media Library) Hector Berlioz of the Paris Conservatoire. In partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, the latter aims to digitise and publish some of that correspondence. CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE – MUSÉE DE LA MUSIQUE (PARIS, FRANCE) INSTITUT THÉODORE GOUVY (HOMBOURG-HAUT, FRANCE) The “Pleyel / Érard / Gaveau and Salle Pleyel” archives “Théodore Gouvy” archives www.cite-musique.fr www.institut-theodore-gouvy.com This collaboration between the Palazzetto Bru Zane and the Musée de la Musique centres on the archiving, cataloguing and digitisation of the “Pleyel / Érard / Gaveau and Salle Pleyel” Collection, consisting of documents dating from 1788 onwards. The archives contain registers of production and sale, as well as many plans of instruments; these provide us with an essential account of the development of instrument making. CONSERVATOIRE DE MUSIQUE DE GENÈVE – HAUTE ÉCOLE DE MUSIQUE (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) Orchestral materials of the Société symphonique www.cmusge.ch 96 CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPÉRIEUR DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE DE PARIS / MÉDIATHÈQUE HECTOR BERLIOZ (PARIS, FRANCE) The Geneva Conservatoire and the Palazzetto Bru Zane are working on a two-stage joint research project involving detailed cataloguing of the Geneva collections of orchestral materials (carried out in 2010), then study of the collections from an applied musicological standpoint. In preparation for a festival devoted to Théodore Gouvy, the Palazzetto Bru Zane, the Institut Théodore Gouvy and the Moselle General Council have come together to work on the publishing and documentation of the Théodore Gouvy archive collection, which is preserved at Hombourg-Haut. PRIVATE ARCHIVES As part of its support for the valorisation of precious documentary collections, the Palazzetto Bru Zane is also engaged in different types of collaboration with private collections, particularly those of the descendants of a number of nineteenth-century composers: Théodore Dubois, Lucien Durosoir, Gabriel Pierné, Maurice Emmanuel, Fernand de La Tombelle, etc. It is also trustee of the Christine Dudych Music Collection. 97 RESEARCH THEMES ON-GOING BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECTS André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) Reception of the works of Boieldieu (1775-1834) in France and abroad George Onslow (1784-1853) Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928) Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938) Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955) Jean Cras (1879-1932) ON-GOING THEMATIC PROJECTS Orchestral materials: from document to practice Répertoire des Programmes de Concert en France (RPCF) The Prix de Rome for composition (1803-1968) Opera in France from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism (1770-1830) The Italians in Paris Guitar music in France in the early nineteenth century The staging manuals for operas premièred in Paris between 1830 and 1930 The visual aspect of French opera 98 99 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | RESEARCH THEMES | On-going biographical projects André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) Known principally for his opéras-comiques, which include Zémire et Azor and Richard Cœur-de-Lion, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry tried his hand at many genres: religious works and instrumental music (during his Italian period), the ballet héroïque (Céphale et Procris) and the tragédie lyrique (Andromaque). Harpsichord teacher to Marie-Antoinette, a close friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this composer of the Ancien Régime was also recognised and rewarded after 1795 by the Revolutionary powers. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Hector Berlioz stands out as the figurehead of Romantic music. In 1830 his Symphonie fantastique laid the foundations for a new conception of instrumental music, subsequently enriched with overtures and programme symphonies (Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Lélio). Since he was not a virtuoso instrumentalist, Berlioz had to diversify his activities throughout his lifetime in order to live by his music: he was a conductor, concert organiser and music critic, and also librarian at the Paris Conservatoire. Reception of the works of Boieldieu (1775-1834) in France and abroad Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Winner of the Prix de Rome, a pupil of Halévy, Lesueur and Paer, Charles Gounod let his passion for opera turn him aside from a religious vocation. The success of his productions reached a peak in 1859 with Faust and in 1867 with Roméo et Juliette. Celebrated as a national treasure, Gounod left his mark through his own particular brand of sensitivity and an impressive catalogue that was dominated by vocal compositions, despite significant forays into orchestral and chamber music. Coordinator: Joann Élart The reputation of François-Adrien Boieldieu, who had an exceptional career, is largely based upon his operas: he was one of the major French opera composers of the nineteenth century, with works such as Le Calife de Bagdad, Jean de Paris, La Fête du village voisin and La Dame Blanche. We see through his career – he was an instrumentalist, composer, publisher, teacher, and an imaginative concert organiser – how the musician’s status changed between the Classical and Romantic periods. George Onslow (1784-1853) George Onslow was an atypical figure, who would spend one part of his year bathing in international glory in Paris and the other quietly composing in his native Auvergne; he had an English name and French nationality, but his tastes were deeply Germanic and he was regarded during his lifetime as “the French Beethoven”. He was one of the great figures of French Romanticism. A past master in the art of the string quartet and quintet, the author of several piano trios and sonatas, he also composed three operas. Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) 100 Coordinator: Alexandre Dratwicki Louis-Ferdinand Hérold is one of the outstanding composers of early French Romanticism. Although his name and that of some of his operatic works (Zampa and Le Pré aux clercs) are still relatively well known today, no systematic study had been carried out to show the full extent of his originality and importance. This work was begun in 2009 with the publication of his correspondence from Italy, followed by the recording of several of his orchestral and chamber works. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Noticed in 1846 as a virtuoso pianist, Saint-Saëns was to be the major French composer of the second half of the nineteenth century. Admired for his orchestral works with their very Classical rigour and bold style (5 piano concertos, 5 symphonies, four symphonic poems), he achieved international fame with his opera Samson et Delila (1877) and Henry VIII (1883). He was also a music critic, organist of the church of La Madeleine, and one of the founders of the Société nationale de musique. Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) Coordinator: Alexandre Dratwicki Théodore Dubois experienced the great moments of French Romanticism, then the questioning of its validity and its disappearance in the first third of the twentieth century. He was a composer, teacher and theorist; he was also maître de chapelle of the church of La Madeleine, a member of the Institute and director of the Paris Conservatoire. His works and writings present a complete and varied account of French musical life at the time of Ambroise Thomas, Camille Saint-Saëns and even Debussy. 101 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | RESEARCH THEMES | On-going biographical projects Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928) Coordinator: Jean-Christophe Branger Fernand de La Tombelle, who studied with Théodore Dubois and was close to Camille SaintSaëns, left a considerable and very varied œuvre, eclectic and even atypical in style, which deserves to be reconsidered not only for its own merits, but also as an illustration of a form of social and artistic activity in France at the turning point between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His music covers every genre. He was also a photographer, he drew and painted, and he was a writer (theory, literature, and even works on astronomy and cuisine). Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) Coordinator: Michela Niccolai Gustave Charpentier is one of the most original of late nineteenth-century French composers. His musical output, including Le Couronnement de la Muse (1897) and Louise (1900) cannot be perfectly understood without analysing the social and political context in which it was written. His dramatic works express the sociological ideals that found another outlet in his “social project”, which saw the founding in 1901 of the Chambre Syndicale des Artistes Musiciens de Paris and in 1902 the Conservatoire populaire de Mimi Pinson (to provide free musical tuition for young working women in Paris). Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938) Coordinator: Christophe Corbier Taken together Maurice Emmanuel’s theoretical and artistic works provide a valuable account of French art in the years 1890 to 1940. Thanks to the Palazzetto Bru Zane, much of his correspondence (most of which has never been seen in print before) is to be published. His writings as a musicologist, hitherto scattered over many different publications or else preserved in his family archives, will also be gathered together for the first time and published as a whole. Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Coordinator: Cyril Bongers As a conductor, composer, virtuoso pianist, organist and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Gabriel Pierné was undoubtedly one of the key personalities in French music during the first third of the twentieth century, showing in his work as a whole a fascinating compromise between academic tradition and the most progressive advances in the art. The time has now come to rediscover the many facets of this endearing figure, in order to shed new light on that period. Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) Coordinator: Philippe Blay The time has come to see Reynaldo Hahn as more than just the author of Ciboulette and delightful mélodies, and as a man who moved in brilliant society circles. Stage works (operas, operettas, musical comedies) and mélodies were the two main branches of his activity, but other genres are also well represented. We need too to take into account every facet of his life: he was also a writer and music critic, a public speaker, a singer in the Parisian salons, a conductor and a theatre director. Lucien Durosoir (1878-1955) Until 1914 he was a successful virtuoso violinist; after 1918 he was a composer who lived withdrawn from the world, and for a long time he was unknown simply because he refused to have his works published. But Lucien Durosoir is now being revived through the publication of the 41 opus numbers he composed between 1919 and 1937. The main mission of the Palazzetto’s project is to draw up an inventory and make scientific use of the very rich documentary collection that is preserved in his family archives. Jean Cras (1879-1932) 102 Coordinator: Georgie and Luc Durosoir Coordinator: Stéphane Topakian Throughout his brilliant career in the French navy, Jean Cras devoted his spare time to composition, leaving an œuvre that is important both in its variety and in its quality, although he has now been more or less forgotten. After presenting a volume devoted to his chamber music (Piano Trio, Cello Sonata, Largo for cello) on the Timpani label in 2008, the Palazzetto Bru Zane has prepared several of his manuscripts for publication and, in collaboration with Symétrie, has presented the correspondence between Jean Cras and Henri Duparc. 103 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES | RESEARCH THEMES | On-going THematic projects Orchestral materials: from document to practice Coordinator: Rémy Campos The Geneva Conservatoire and the Palazzetto Bru Zane are working on a two-stage joint research project. The first stage involves detailed cataloguing of the Geneva collections of orchestral materials dating from the closing years of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. In the second stage those same collections will be studied from an applied musicological standpoint: colloquia and study days will be followed by the publication of works on the musical practices of that period. Répertoire des Programmes de Concert en France (RPCF) Coordinator: Patrick Taïeb The primary aim of the RPCF, launched in 2000 and bringing together a forty-strong team of musicologists, is to publish all the programmes of concerts given in France between 1700 and 1914. Each volume of the RPCF is devoted to a particular place and period, e.g. “Paris 1773-1848”. Eleven such programmes (including the one just mentioned) are financed by the Agence nationale de la recherche and supported by the University of Rouen. Following the publication in 2008 by Symétrie and the Palazzetto Bru Zane of Jean Mongrédien’s impressive volume devoted to Le Théâtre-Italien de Paris (1801-1831), the Centre de musique romantique française continues its research on the subject of cultural transfers between Paris and Italy through the opera houses. See the database: www.theatre-italien.fr. The publication of scores is now under way (Italian arias by Hérold, Benoist, Halévy and others), and several recordings of rare pieces are planned. Guitar music in France in the early nineteenth century Coordinator: Pascal Valois The body of works for guitar published in Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century is extremely rich. Interest in the instrument in Paris was so keen that the word “guitaromanie” (guitar mania) was coined to describe it. A whole generation of French-born composers-guitarists, now almost forgotten, worked alongside foreign guitarists. The time has come to re-evaluate this heritage and make a selection of representative pieces widely available through the publication of a modern edition. The Prix de Rome for composition (1803-1968) The staging manuals for operas premièred in Paris between 1830 and 1930 Coordinator: Alexandre Dratwicki The Prix de Rome for composition, which earned its winners a stay in Italy, had not yet been the subject of an exhaustive study. The Palazzetto Bru Zane will be publishing the first musicological survey on the subject, Le Concours du prix de Rome de musique (1803-1968), consisting of forty articles by musicologists from different countries, coordinated by Julia Lu and Alexandre Dratwicki. An anthology of cantatas written for the Prix de Rome is also being published, and a series of CD-books is being produced in partnership with the record label Glossa. Opera in France from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism (1770-1830) 104 The Italians in Paris Coordinator: Benoît Dratwicki Little is known about the transitional period between the tragédie lyrique of Rameau and the grand opéra of Meyerbeer. Yet the same style, forms and genres appear in the French operatic works of Gluck, Cherubini, Catel, Spontini and others: clearly there was real continuity. The aim of this research project is to gain a better understanding of the genesis of Romanticism and the evolution of vocal, instrumental, choreographic and stage techniques during that period. Coordinators: Michela Niccolai, Pierre Sérié and Rémy Campos The publication – with annotations and illustrations – of a series of stage manuals for important works in the French operatic repertoire, from Auber to Debussy and Ravel, will provide researchers and practitioners alike with a very useful tool. This patrimonialisation of the visual aspect of opera between 1830 and 1930 is an integral part of the works concerned, their history and their reception, but it may also be a source of inspiration for new, contemporary artistic elaborations. Knowing how works were originally staged can be both enlightening and inspiring. The visual aspect of French opera Coordinator: Pierre Sérié In recent years, in archives and museum collections in Paris, researchers have brought to light a huge amount of material providing us with precious information on the visual aspect of the stage works (including operas) presented at France’s national theatres. Those items – drawings or models of sets, sketches of costumes – have been listed and identified (authors, the works for which they were intended) and now the time has come to study them from an artistic point of view and to re-establish the pluridisciplinary dimension of French opera. 105 PUBLICATIONS 107 PUBLICATIONS | BOOKS Biographies, letters, essays, collective works, proceedings of the symposia, nineteenthcentury writings or dictionaries, give the floor in turn to actors and witnesses of the artistic life of that time and to their commentators of today. 108 HENRI DUPARC Lettres à Jean Cras, « le fils de mon âme » Presented and annotated by Stéphane Topakian 30 € | 181 pages Aspects de l’opéra français de Meyerbeer à Honegger Work coordinated by JeanChristophe Branger and Vincent Giroud 32 € | 248 pages Lettres de compositeurs à Camille Saint-Saëns Presented and annotated by Eurydice Jousse and Yves Gérard 49 € | 688 pages Henri Rabaud Correspondance et écrits de jeunesse (1889-1907) Presented and annotated by Michel Rabaud 49 € | 504 pages Théodore Dubois Souvenirs de ma vie Presented and annotated by Christine Collette-Kléo 30 € | 248 pages Hérold en Italie Work coordinated by Alexandre Dratwicki 45 € | 456 pages Jules Stockhausen Itinéraire d’un chanteur à travers vingt années de correspondance, 1844-1864 Letters collected by Geneviève Honegger 45 € | 433 pages George Onslow, un romantique entre France et Allemagne Work coordinated by Viviane Niaux 75 € | 408 pages Le Concours du prix de Rome de musique (1803-1968) Work coordinated by Julia Lu and Alexandre Dratwicki Forthcoming Castil-Blaze Histoire de l’opéra-comique Presented by Alexandre Dratwicki and Patrick Taïeb Forthcoming “Les colloques de l’Opéra Comique” Each season the Opéra Comique and the Palazzetto Bru Zane organise several symposia, the results of which are published in this series. L’invention des genres lyriques français et leur redécouverte au XIXe siècle Work coordinated by Agnès Terrier and Alexandre Dratwicki 80 € | 560 pages Le surnaturel sur la scène lyrique : du merveilleux baroque au fantastique romantique Work coordinated by Agnès Terrier and Alexandre Dratwicki Forthcoming Dictionaries In order to provide researchers and music lovers with reference tools, the Palazzetto Bru Zane, with Symétrie, is developing a series of anthological works and dictionaries with a bearing on the French Romantic repertoire and its institutions. Nicole Wild Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens Forthcoming Jean Mongrédien Le Théâtre-Italien de Paris 1801-1831 Chronology and documents 640 € | 5 384 pages Paperbacks In order to make the results of musicological research accessible to all, the Palazzetto Bru Zane, with Symétrie, is bringing out a series of paperbacks, enabling people to acquire, at a very reasonable price, the seminal texts of musical Romanticism, as well as essays of various types. Database by Symétrie (full-text search): www.theatre-italien.fr Pierre Brunel Aimer Chopin 10,20 € | 265 pages Hector Berlioz Mémoires Introduction by Alban Ramaut 14,80 € | 705 pages Hector Berlioz Les Grotesques de la musique Introduction by Gérard Condé Forthcoming 109 PUBLICATIONS | scores The catalogue of scores published by the Palazzetto Bru Zane, with Symétrie, aims to represent the different genres practised during the Romantic period, with priority given to hitherto unpublished works. Full scores and orchestral materials are available for hire on request. Albert-Auguste Androt Alcyone (1803) Cantata for soprano and orchestra Ernest Boulanger Achille (1835) Cantata for tenor and orchestra Johann Christian Bach Amadis de Gaule (1779) Tragédie lyrique for soloists, chorus and orchestra Guillaume Bouteiller Héro et Léandre (1806) Cantata for soprano and orchestra François Bazin Solo for trombone and string quintet (1866) Louis-Ange Carpentras Overture to Iphigénie en Aulide by Gluck arranged for guitar (1822) Sonate brillante op. 1 for guitar (1815) Henri-Montant Berton Le Concert interrompu (1802) Air (Cécile), “Quel rusceletto…”, with violin, cello and concerted piano Prosper Bigot Fantaisie on the air “Soyez sensible…” from Les Mystères d’Isis and Rondo Op. 3 for guitar (1822) Georges Bizet David (1856) Cantata for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra François-Adrien Boieldieu Ma tante Aurore ou Le Roman impromptu (1803) Overture 110 Charles-Simon Catel Les Bayadères (1810) Air (Laméa), “Sans détourner les yeux…” Sémiramis (1802) Tragédie lyrique for soloists, chorus and orchestra Joseph Charlot Chœur de Bayadères (1850) or mixed choir and orchestra Emma et Eginhard (1850) Cantata for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra Gustave Charpentier Didon (1887) Cantata for soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra La Fête des Myrtes (1887) For mixed choir and orchestra Luigi Cherubini Médée (1797) Overture – Prelude to Act III – Air (Médée), “Du trouble affreux qui me dévore…” – Air (Néris), “Ah, nos peines seront communes…” Les Deux Journées ou Le Porteur d’eau (1800) Overture Ode à l’hymen (1810) For solo tenor, chorus and orchestra Ave Maria (1816) Motet for soprano or tenor and orchestra O Salutaris (1826) Motet for bass and orchestra Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac Azémia ou Les Sauvages (1787) Overture Renaud d’Ast (1787) Overture Félicien David Nonet no. 2 for brass (1839) String Quartet no. 4 (1874) François Devienne Les Comédiens ambulants (1798) Overture Paul Dukas Velléda (1888) Cantata for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra Christoph Willibald Gluck Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) Air (Iphigénie), “Je t’implore et je tremble…” Orphée et Eurydice (1774) Overture – Air de Furie – Air (Eurydice), “Fortune ennemie…” – Menuet des Ombres heureuses François-Joseph Gossec Symphony op. 6 no. 3 (circa 1762) – Thésée (1781) Air (Médée), “Ah! Faut-il me venger…” Charles Gounod Concerto for pedal piano and orchestra (1883) Polyeucte (1878) Duet (Pauline and Sévère),“Pauline! Dieux!... Sévère!” Solo for trombone and piano (1858) Symphony no. 1 (1855) Fromental Halévy Charles VI (1843) Duet (Odette and Charles VI), “Eh! bien, puisque les morts…” Herminie (1819) Cantata for soprano and orchestra Louis-Ferdinand Hérold Piano Concerto no. 2 (1811) – Piano Concerto no. 3 (1813) – Piano Concerto no. 4 (1813) – La Belle au bois dormant (1829) Orchestral suite Vincent d’Indy Symphonie italienne (1872) Nicolas Isouard Lulli et Quinault ou Le Déjeuner impossible (1812) Overture Hyacinthe Jadin Piano Concerto no. 2 (1796) Victorin Joncières Symphonie “romantique” (1870) 111 PUBLICATIONS | scores Rodolphe Kreutzer Astyanax (1801) Air (Cassandre), “Ah! ces perfides Grecs…” La Mort d’Abel (1810) Air (Adam), “L’aurore a dissipé les ombres…” Paul et Virginie (1791) Overture Simon Leduc Symphony in E flat major (1777) Jean-François Le Sueur La Caverne ou Le Repentir (1793) Air (Don Juan), “Dans ce péril certain…” 112 Max d’Ollone Frédégonde (1897) Cantata for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and orchestra Les Villes maudites (1899) Symphonic poem for mixed choir and orchestra Sous-bois (1897) For mixed choir and orchestra George Onslow Le Colporteur ou L’Enfant du bûcheron (1826) Overture String Quartet op. 50 (1833) Symphony no. 1 (1831) Camille Saint-Saëns Chœur de Sylphes (1852) For solo soprano and mezzo-soprano, mixed choir and orchestra Henry VIII (1883) Duet (Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII),“Ô mon maître et seigneur...” Ivanhoé (1864) Cantata for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra Le Retour de Virginie (1852) Cantate pour soprano, ténor, basse et orchestre Ode (1864) For mixed choir and orchestra The complete works are based on the research that has been carried out internationally over the past forty years or so by musicologists of five different nationalities, who have studied the musical and literary sources, as well as correspondence, iconography and historical Antonio Salieri recordings. This long awaited new edition, a monumenLes Danaïdes (1784) tal work, will reveal many of Fauré’s compositions and Overture – Scene and air (Hypermnestre), “Où suis-je ? Où favour the international circulation of music that is vais-je ?” – Air (Hypermnestre), “Par les larmes, dont votre constantly arousing fresh enthusiasm worldwide as it fille...” is discovered. Jules Massenet Ève (1875) Prelude, scene and duet (Eve and Adam), “Homme, tu n’es plus seul...” Le Mage (1891) Air (Varedha) and duet (Varedha and Amrou), “Ah! Comme ils déchirent mon cœur...” Ferdinando Paer Le Maître de chapelle ou Le Souper imprévu (1821) Air (Barnabé), “Ah! Quel bonheur…” Étienne-Nicolas Méhul Ariodant (1799) Air (Ina), “Quelle fureur barbare!” Stratonice (1792) Overture Symphonie no. 1 (1808-1809) François-André Danican Philidor Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège (1767) Air (Ricimer), “Transports, tourments jaloux…” Auguste Mermet Roland à Roncevaux (1864) Air (Alde), “Prête à te fuir…” Gioachino Rossini Le Siège de Corinthe (1826) Air (Pamyra), “L’heure fatale approche…” Ambroise Thomas Le Caïd (1849) Recitative and duet (Fatma and Michel), “Ciel! Vous chantiez à l’instant fort bien...” Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny Le Déserteur (1769) Air (Alexis), “Il m’eût été si doux de t’embrasser…” Antonio Sacchini Arvire et Evelina (1788) Overture Dardanus (1784) Overture Johann Christoph Vogel Démophon (1789) Overture La Toison d’or (1786) Tragédie lyrique for soloists, chorus and orchestra Émile Paladilhe Patrie ! (1886) Duet (Dolorès and Rysoor), “Ah! Maintenant à moi...” Henri Reber Symphonie no. 4 Bärenreiter The complete works of Gabriel Fauré This edition of the complete works of Gabriel Fauré (18451924) brings together for the first time all the scores that were issued by different publishers during the composer’s lifetime. The texts have been established from all the original sources now known: manuscripts, corrected proofs, original editions, corrected copies, and so on. Gaspare Spontini La Vestale (1807) Aria (Julia), “Toi que j’implore avec effroi…” Prelude, scene and air from La Grande Vestale, “L’amour est un monstre barbare” Olympie (1819) Scene and duet (Olympie and Statira), “Ô déplorable mère...” Directed by Jean-Michel Nectoux Committee: Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Carlo Caballero, Tom Gordon, Denis Herlin, Peter Jost, Richard Langham Smith, Hugh Macdonald, Roger Nichols, Robert Orledge, James William Sobaskie, Robin C. Tait Edited by Nicolas Southon In collaboration with Musica Gallica, the Singer-Polignac Foundation, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française 113 PUBLICATIONS | RECORDINGS Each year the Palazzetto Bru Zane works in partnership with different labels involved in the rediscovery of rare works of French Romanticism for the making and release of new recordings. Naïve www.naive.fr Timpani www.timpani-records.com George Onslow String Quartets op. 54, 55 and 56 Quatuor Diotima 2010 César Franck Music for piano and orchestra Bertrand Chamayou, piano Olivier Latry, harmonium Stéphane Denève, conductor Royal Scottish National Orchestra 2010 Jean Cras Trio, Cello Sonata and Largo for cello Philippe Koch, violin Aleksandr Khramouchin, cello Alain Jacquon, piano 2009 Gabriel Fauré Mélodies Yann Beuron, tenor Billy Eidi, piano 2009 Massenet, Cherubini, Halévy, Berlioz, Wormser, Bizet “Ne me refuse pas…” Airs d'opéras français Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto Fabien Gabel, conductor Orchestre national de France Chausson, Duparc, Gounod... Mélodies Stéphane Degout, baritone Hélène Lucas, piano 2010 Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac Le Cœur du moulin Jean-Yves Ossonce, conductor Maîtrise & Chœurs de l’Opéra de Tours Orchestre symphonique Région Centre – Tours 2010 Hyacinthe Jadin String Quartets op. 1 no. 1, op. 3 no. 1 and op. 3 no. 3 Quatuor Cambini – Paris 2010 Félicien David Quatuors à cordes Quatuor Cambini – Paris Forthcoming Paul Le Flem Aucassin et Nicolette Nicolas Chalvin, conductor Orchestre des Pays de Savoie Solistes de Lyon Forthcoming George Onslow Works for wind instruments (Quintet, Sextet, Septet, Nonet) Ensemble Initium Ensemble Contraste 2011 2010 Luigi Cherubini Lodoïska Jérémie Rhorer, conductor Le Cercle de l’Harmonie Forthcoming 114 115 PUBLICATIONS | RECORDINGS XXI-21 www.xxi-21.com LIGIA Théodore Dubois Chansons de Marjolie, Odelettes antiques & autres mélodies Anne Saint-Denis, soprano Olivier Godin, piano 2010 Théodore Dubois Transcriptions for piano 4 hands Carole Dubois & Olivier Godin, piano 2011 Théodore Dubois Remember Music for violin and piano Stéphanie-Marie Degand, violin Laurent Martin, piano 2009 George Onslow Guise ou les États de Blois Opéra-comique in 3 acts, arr. by the author as a quartet Le Salon Romantique 2009 Théodore Dubois Motets Les Filles de l’Île Les Chantres musiciens Gilbert Patenaude, conductor Forthcoming Fernand de La Tombelle Les Sept Paroles du Christ Les Filles de l’Île Les Chantres musiciens Gilbert Patenaude, conductor 2011 Alexis de Castillon de Saint-Victor Piano Quintet and Quartet Laurent Martin, piano Quatuor Satie 2010 Fernand de La Tombelle Quatuor – Trio Laurent Martin, piano Quatuor Satie Forthcoming LaBorie www.ebl-laborie.com Louis Aubert & Gabriel Fauré Violin Sonatas Anne Robert, violin Maneli Pirzadeh, piano Forthcoming 116 Émile Pessard 25 piano pieces Olivier Godin, piano Forthcoming Alexandre-PierreFrançois Boëly Chamber music Quatuor Mosaïques, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin, Éric Lebrun 2009 Félicien David Le Souvenir / Les 4 Saisons 2 volumes Christophe Coin, conductor Ensemble Baroque de Limoges Quatuor Mosaïques 2011 117 PUBLICATIONS | RECORDINGS Zig-Zag Territoires www.zigzag-territoires.com Ernest Chausson Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer – Chanson perpétuelle – String Quartet op. 35 Salomé Haller, soprano Nicolas Krüger, piano Quatuor Manfred 2010 Mirare www.mirare.fr Gabriel Fauré La Bonne Chanson – Piano Quartet Karine Deshayes, soprano Ensemble Contraste 2011 Louis-Ferdinand Hérold Piano Concertos nos. 2, 3 and 4 Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano Hervé Niquet, conductor Sinfonia Varsovia 2011 Musicales Actes Sud www.actes-sud.fr/musicales-actes-sud Mel Bonis, Maurice Ravel Trios Trio George Sand Forthcoming Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré Impressions françaises Music for flute Juliette Hurel, flute; Hélène Couvert, piano; Arnaud Thorette, viola; Christine Icart, harp; Florence Darel, narrator Forthcoming Alpha www.alpha-prod.com Gustave Nadaud La Bouche et l’Oreille Daniel Isoir, piano Arnaud Marzorati, baritone Alexandre Chabod, clarinet Stéphanie Paulet, violin Paul Carlioz, cello 2010 118 Camille Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony and Piano Concerto no. 4 François-Xavier Roth, conductor Jean-François Heisser, piano Les Siècles 2010 Aeolus www.aeolus-music.com Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary songs Les Lunaisiens Arnaud Marzorati & Jean-François Novelli, conductor Forthcoming César Franck Complete vocal works with organ 2 volumes Solistes de Lyon – Bernard Tétu Bernard Tétu, conductor Maîtrise et jeune chœur du centre de la Voix Rhône-Alpes Maîtrise du CPM de Genève Diego Innocenzi, organ 2007 and 2009 Théodore Dubois Musique concertante Jean-François Heisser, piano Marc Coppey, cello Orchestre Poitou-Charentes Forthcoming Glossa www.glossamusic.com André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry Andromaque – CD Book (2 CD) Hervé Niquet, conductor Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Le Concert Spirituel 2010 BNL www.codaex.com Théodore Dubois et Édouard Lalo Violin Concerto and Symphonie espagnole Frédéric Pélassy, violin Zbynek Müller, conductor Orchestre national philharmonique de Kosice – Slovaquie 2011 119 PUBLICATIONS | RECORDINGS Ricercar www.ricercar.be André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry Céphale & Procris Guy van Waas, conductor Chœur de chambre de Namur Les Agrémens 2010 Cypres www.cypres-records.com César Franck Music for piano and orchestra Cédric Tiberghien, piano François-Xavier Roth, conductor Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège 2011 Europ&Art www.europe-art.com Max d’Ollone Piano Studies – Piano Trio Gérard Poulet, violin Dominique de Williencourt, cello Dimitris Saroglou, piano Forthcoming 120 Eloquentia www.eloquentia.fr/F/label.htm Camille Saint-Saëns Complete cello works Luigi Piovano, cello Nazzareno Carusi, piano Piero Bellugi, conductor Orchestra del Teatro Marrucino 2011 Pavian Records www.old-skool.ru Brilliant Classics www.brilliantclassics.com Jules Massenet, Émile Paladilhe, Jacques-Fromental Halévy… French operatic duets Hjördis Thébault, soprano Pierre-Yves Pruvot, baritone Didier Talpain, conductor Solamente Naturali Forthcoming EMI www.emiclassics.com Gioachino Rossini Guillaume Tell Antonio Pappano, conductor Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Forthcoming Virgin www.emiclassics.com Kreutzer, Mermet, Gossec, Verdi, Massenet, Meyerbeer… French operatic arias Véronique Gens, soprano Christophe Rousset, conductor Les Talens Lyriques 2011 HYPERION www.hyperion-records.co.uk Luigi Cherubini Arias & Overtures from Florence to Paris Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano Carlo Ipata, conductor Auser Musici Forthcoming Anima Records www.entremuses.com/anima Georges Pfeiffer, Théodore Dubois, Ernest Chausson Piano Trios Trio Arcadis 2011 121 PUBLICATIONS | RECORDINGS Brussels Philharmonic L’Orchestre des Flandres Chœur de la Radio flamande Hervé Niquet, conductor Glossa Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre de musique romantique française Claude Debussy and the Prix de Rome (2009) Camille Saint-Saëns and the Prix de Rome (2011) Gustave Charpentier and the Prix de Rome (2011) Music for the Prix de Rome “Every possible criticism has been made of the cantata, a false genre, and of this competition, which has little significance,” wrote Florent Schmitt. The prestige of the Prix de Rome, awarded annually from 1803 to 1968, made it a highly coveted prize. Taxed with academicism, denigrated and even derided, it became synonymous with the bad taste of a “decadent Romanticism”. Yet it has to be admitted that the Prix de Rome constantly maintained its reputation; it never went stale, never succumbed to the banality of constant repetition, never failed to take into account pedagogical, political and aesthetic considerations. The time has come for this repertoire, which is all too often criticised (although it is almost unknown!), to be given its rightful place in the history of French music, and for the myths and beliefs regarding this very famous prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts to be set straight. After all, Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy and Dutilleux were among its winners. As part of the revival of the French Romantic repertoire that is now under way, the Palazzetto Bru 122 Zane – Centre de musique romantique française decided to launch a vast project devoted to the cantatas written for the Prix de Rome competition and the compositions that were sent from Rome by the winners. This involves, on the one hand, the publication of musical scores and musicological works, in collaboration with the publishers Symétrie, and, on the other hand, recordings, in collaboration with Glossa, the Brussels Philharmonic – The Orchestra of Flanders (formerly the Vlaams Radio Orkest) and the Flemish Radio Choir (Vlaams Radio Koor). The first in this series of CD-books (released in autumn 2009) is devoted to Claude Debussy. Camille Saint-Saëns is the subject of the second volume (winter 2011). Saint-Saëns did not win the prize, but he nevertheless composed some extremely interesting works for the competition: two choruses and two cantatas that hitherto had never been recorded. In October 2011, a volume devoted to Gustave Charpentier will enable us to hear the complete versions of Didon, La Fête des Myrtes, Impressions d’Italie and La Vie du Poète. TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE 123 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL DE MUSIQUE DE CHAMBRE DE LYON FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP… PARIS INTERNATIONAL OPERA COMPETITION FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP… The Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, founded in 2004, has chosen to follow the development of the careers of young chamber musicians. Six disciplines – piano trio (violin, cello, piano); brass quintet; voice and piano (French and German art songs); duo violin-piano; wind quintet; string quartet – were chosen for the importance of their respective repertoires. The Lyon competition, which has been a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) since 2006, receives candidates from all over the world and attracts judges of great repute. It associates various concert organisations in its activities: Bayer Season Leverkusen, Germany; Berlioz Festival, La Côte-Saint-André; Fondation Royaumont, Paris; Musée en Musique, Grenoble; Auditorium du Louvre; France Musique; Banff Center for the Arts, Canada; Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice; Festival Radio France-Montpellier, and others. A competition is a momentous event in a young artist’s life. It involves a long period of preparation. In order to contribute effectively to the development of the repertoire, the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition decided to set each year contemporary works and ones that are rarely included in the usual concert repertoires. Since 2009, collaboration with the Palazzetto Bru Zane has accompanied and extended this approach, with the working-out of a list of works by French Romantic composers to be set in the competition, and reception of the winners for one or more concerts at the Palazzetto. For the 2011 edition of the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, devoted to the piano trio, the Palazzetto Bru Zane presented a prize for the best interpretation of one of the set pieces: Romantic trios by Georges Pfeiffer, Cécile Chaminade and Alphonse Duvernoy. The artists chosen are also invited to give a performance in Venice during the 2011- 2012 season, as part of the festival Le salon romantique. Performances of the same programme will later be given on tour. The first edition of the biennial Paris International Opera Competition was held at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées from 15 to 17 October 2010. The competition spotlights nineteenth-century French opera, which is why the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française wished to be associated with its initiative through the presentation of a Special Prize. The aim of the competition is to discover talented young singers who are about to embark on their careers, and to launch them on the international scene, with the support of a jury composed of directors of major European opera houses. The Special Prize rewards vocal qualities, but also acting abilities and stage presence. The competition invites young singers from all over the world to show their skills in the French repertoire. As well as awarding a Special Prize, the Palazzetto Bru Zane will be inviting the winner, Julie Fuchs, to give a concert in Venice. The programme, devoted to the French operatic repertoire, will include both rare and well-known pieces. This concert, given on 8 October 2011, will be part of the inaugural festival Virtuosity. It will then be presented at other venues through the Palazzetto’s partnership network. www.cioperaparis.com www.cimcl.fr 124 125 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE Concours international de piano d’Orléans FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... QuatuorS à Bordeaux FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... The Association “Orléans Concours International” (OCI) was founded in 1989 to create and run a piano competition centred on the twentieth- and twentyfirst-century repertoires and aiming to reveal one or more artists each year, selected by a highly qualified panel of judges. The repertoire (from 1900 to the present day) includes the great schools of the early twentieth century as well as new works. With the aid of the OCI, the winners are required to pay tribute to the different types of music in a spirit of tolerance and openness, by giving as many concerts and master classes as possible. Besides the prestigious concerts and invitations to appear at the great French festivals (Metz, La Roque d’Anthéron, Acanthe, etc.), following each edition of the competition, the winners appear on tour in South America, Asia and the United States. The winner of the first prize also records a CD under professional conditions (most recently, Le Temps Recréé with Florence Cioccolani, including works by Carter, Boulez, Mantovani, Matalon and Boucourechliev; and works dedicated to Enesco, played by Christopher Falzone). The first competition was held in 1994; since then it has revealed talents such as Hideki Nagano, Fabio Grasso, Toros Can, Winston Choi, Francesco Tristano Schlime, Wilhelm Latchoumia, Florence Cioccolani and Christopher Falzone. The Association also organises the “Brin d’Herbe” junior competition, and a regional tour for the winners. The Palazzetto Bru Zane will present a prize for the best performance of a work chosen by the candidates from the following list of set pieces: Théodore Dubois (Les Heures or Poèmes alpestres, excerpts), Jean-Jules Roger-Ducasse (Rythmes and Sonorités), Paul Dukas (La Plainte au loin du Faune or Hommage à Debussy), Déodat de Séverac (Cerdaña or En Languedoc, excerpts), Guy Ropartz (Musique au jardin or Nocturnes), Gabriel Pierné (Trois Pièces formant suite de concert or Étude de concert), Florent Schmitt (Pan au fond des blés lunaires s’accouda). The prizewinners will be invited to appear in Venice, during the Palazzetto’s 2014-2015 season. The concert will also be taken on tour. The Association Quatuors à Bordeaux aims to promote chamber music, and in particular the string quartet – a rich musical form in an exceptional repertoire. Thus every three years it holds an International String Quartet Competition (member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions), which since 1999 has taken over from the prestigious Évian competition and is considered one of the most important quartet competitions in the world. In the interests of harmonisation within Europe, the Bordeaux Competition alternates with those of London and Reggio Emilia. A competition was thus held in 2010 (10–16 May, Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux), and the next one will be in 2013. In the intervening years the association organises a festival, the “Rencontres européennes de Musique de Chambre”, to promote winners of the Bordeaux and other competitions. It also proposes a String Quartet Academy, in which a few ensembles are given the opportunity to follow a master class with teachers of world renown. The City of Bordeaux, which has hosted this event since 1999, provides part of the financing; the rest coming from private patrons, including some of the famous wine châteaux of the area (Petrus, Cheval Blanc, Yquem, Haut Brion, Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild) and large companies wishing to support this excellent event. The association, whose board chairman is Mr. Alain Pichon, is directed by Bernard Lummeaux et Alain Meunier. At the next competition (2013), the Palazzetto Bru Zane will reward the best performance of a French Romantic quartet chosen from a list of set pieces. The prize winners will be invited to appear in Venice in the course of the Palazzetto’s 2014-2015 season. The concert will also be given during a tour organised by the Palazzetto. From the 2011-2012 season, the Palazzetto and Quatuors à Bordeaux will be co-organising various master classes, as well as each presenting the Quatuor Raphaël, winner of the Bordeaux competition in 2010, in a programme including pieces by Théodore Dubois. www.oci-piano.com 126 www.quatuorabordeaux.com 127 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE Haute École de musique de Genève et de Lausanne (HEM): WAGNER EN FRANÇAIS In 1897 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner received its Paris première, sung in French at the Palais Garnier. In the unanimous opinion of critics and public alike, the production surpassed that of Bayreuth. This opera was presented many times between 1897 and the First World War. Today no one remembers the Paris première of Wagner's only comedy, but the Paris Opéra is one of the few theatres in the world that preserves the memory of its performances within its own walls. Indeed, in the collections of the Paris Opéra Library and Museum, many documents are devoted to the 1897 version of Die Meistersinger, thus making it possible to revive it in its entirety. The reconstruction of the first scene of Act III invites us to view and listen to this famous opera in a different way, performed by students and graduates of the Geneva and Lausanne HEM in its original staging, with the original sets and costumes, and in the French version by Alfred Ernst (1897). www.cmusge.ch - www.hemu-cl.ch 128 FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... Jeune Orchestre atlantique The rich collections of the Library and Museum of the Paris Opéra enable the reconstruction of performances as they were given more than a century ago. The Wagner in Paris project will present the first scene from Act III of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in the staging of the 1897 Paris première, i.e. with the sets and costumes that were used at the Palais Garnier. Students of the Geneva and Lausanne HEM will sing the score in French, as was customary at that time. Created in 1996 on the initiative of La Chapelle Royale, the Centre d’Études Supérieures de Musique et de Danse de Poitou-Charentes and the Abbaye aux Dames at Saintes, the Jeune Orchestre atlantique comes together for orchestral or chamber sessions. It appears regularly at the Saintes Festival, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe and guest conductors including Sigiswald Kuijken, Jos van Immerseel, Marc Minkowski, David Stern, Christophe Rousset and others, but also elsewhere in France and in Europe. These sessions enable young musicians nearing the end of their studies or already at the beginning of their professional careers to gain experience in performance of the Classical and Romantic repertoires on period instruments. The instructors, all members of the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and other orchestras specialising in historical performance, teach at the major French and European conservatoires and offer instrumentalists a specific interpretative approach. The Jeune Orchestre atlantique, which includes young musicians from all over the world, takes part in many varied projects (operas, symphonic works, chamber music). Since 2009 it has taken part in actions of the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française. This season it will be present for a training session with the conductor David Stern. March 2012 Théâtre de La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March 2012 Amphithéâtre Bastille, Paris (France) STUDENTS OF THE GENEVA AND LAUSANNE HEM FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... Sunday 11 December 2011 at 5 p.m. Théâtre L’Équinoxe, Châteauroux (France) Monday 12 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Théâtre des Quatre-Saisons, Gradignan (France) Tuesday 13 December 2011 at 8.30 p.m. Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes (France) “France / Germany / Italy” JEUNE ORCHESTRE ATLANTIQUE David Stern, conductor Daria Fadeeva, piano GLUCK, HÉROLD, CHERUBINI www.abbayeauxdames.org 129 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE Jeunes Talents FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... Académie musicale de Villecroze FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... Founded in 1998, Jeunes Talents organises 150 concerts a year between September and June during the season, and in July for its European Festival. The concerts are given in famous buildings belonging to the national heritage – every Saturday at the Hôtel de Soubise, home of the French National Archives, in the heart of the Marais district; two Wednesdays a month in the Colbert Auditorium of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA); once a month at the Musée-Promenade de Marly-le-Roi (Louveciennes); also once a month at the Mairie of the ninth arrondissement in Paris – but also in several hospitals of the Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris. Jeunes Talents is guided in its actions by five important themes: the future (presentation of young musicians, winners of the competition and future international soloists); teaching and introduction to classical music (organising talks, free open rehearsals, "awareness days" for children, and so on); diversity (varied programmes, including contemporary and traditional music); Europe (inviting students of the great European music schools to meet young musicians trained in France); solidarity towards new audiences (availability of lowprice seats, free entrance for children under the age of twelve, beneficiaries of "Cultures du Cœur" and our partners’ employees – not to mention the many concerts with free admission!). Thursday 15 September 2011 Hôpital Sainte-Périne, Paris (France) Sunday 2 October 2011 Musée-Promenade Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes (France) Saturday 14 January 2012 Archives nationales, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris (France) The Académie musicale de Villecroze supports and encourages talented young artists in a unique location in the heart of Provence designed for the exchange and transmission of knowledge and art. Its founder, Anne Gruner Schlumberger, opened the Academy in October 1989 with the ambition of making it into “a buzzing hive of music”. On her death in 1993, she was succeeded by Anne Postel-Vinay, her granddaughter. A dozen master classes are held each year, as well as composition and musicology workshops. These activities take place from February to November: for ten days, twelve to twenty young talents from all over the world come to work with eminent teachers in an environment conducive to exchanges and the sharing of music. The Academy attaches great importance to helping these young people (through concerts, CD recordings) to launch their careers. Sunday 2 October 2011 Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Levallois-Perret (France) Saturday 8 October 2011 Théâtre du Centre municipal des loisirs, Montfort L’Amaury (France) Sunday 16 October 2011 Chapelle du Méjean, Arles (France) www.jeunes-talents.org Héloïse Luzzati, cello Constance Luzzati, harp VIERNE, FAURÉ, ONSLOW, MASSENET www.academie-villecroze.com François Leroux, artistic director and stage director Maurice RAVEL: L’Heure espagnole (chamber version arranged by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger) In collaboration with Isis Production Spectacles Thursday 10 November 2011 Hôpital Sainte-Périne, Paris (France) Saturday 10 March 2012 Archives nationales, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris (France) Estelle Béréau, soprano Charlotte Bonneu, piano DEBUSSY, RAVEL, CHAUSSON, HAHN 130 131 TEACHING PROJECTS, COMPETITIONS AND CAREER ASSISTANCE American Guild of Organists – The New York City Chapter - Yale Institute of Sacred Music Master class “French vocal church music and its accompaniment (18501914)” Vocal church music of the second half of the nineteenth century is still little known. Only a few pieces – Gounod’s Ave Maria, Panis angelicus by César Franck and the Fauré Requiem, for example – are regularly heard in concert or are sung during church services, yet dozens of works of great interest remain to be discovered. This master class for American musicians makes available the latest musicological research, as well as practical experience accumulated over many years of working on this repertoire. It will explore several avenues. First of all, the use of information contained in the original scores: the first editions contain a wealth of information on the original scoring for three voices (children’s choir, tenors and basses), phrasing, tempos, and so on. Moreover, the question of the forces used at the time merits further study in the light of information found in church records (number of singers, use of the church choir and additional instruments such as the harp, cello or double bass). Knowledge of keyboard instruments used in the second half of the nineteenth century (choir organ, harmonium, etc.) gives us a better understanding of the accompaniment of vocal music before the motu proprio of 1903. Finally, the first sound recordings (made between 1900 and 1930) shed light on the interpretation of sacred music, and also on the pronunciation of Latin. www.nycago.org - www.yale.edu/ism 132 FRUITS OF THIS PARTNERSHIP... Friday 17, Saturday 18 and Friday 24 February 2012 The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford (USA) PARTNERSHIPS HARTFORD SCHOLA CANTORUM SOLI DEO GLORIA ORCHESTRA Ezequiel Menéndez, organ Diego Innocenzi, organ DUBOIS, SAINT-SAËNS, FRANCK Monday 20 February 2012 Church of St Ignatius Loyola, New York (USA) Tuesday 21 February 2012 The Brick Presbyterian Church, New York (USA) Organists of the American Guild of Organists DUBOIS, GOUNOD, SAINT-SAËNS, FRANCK February 2012 Yale University Master class with works by Gounod, Franck, Batiste, Paladilhe, Dubois and Saint-Saëns Contributors: Diego Innocenzi and Rémy Campos 133 PARTNeRshipS GERMANY Berliner Symphoniker www.berliner-symphoniker.de 27 April 2012, Pordenone (Italy) Berliner Symphoniker / Shambadal / Prosseda (Gounod, Franck, Carrara) 6 May 2012, Berlin Berliner Symphoniker / Shambadal / Prosseda (Gounod, Franck, Carrara) Musikfest Bremen www.musikfest-bremen.de 4 September 2011, Bremen Le Cercle de l'Harmonie / Rhorer / Chauvin / Chamayou (Onslow, Reber, Liszt, Berlioz) Staatstheater Nürnberg Festival Zomer Van Sint-Pieter www.zomer-van-sint-pieter.be 13 July 2012, Leuven Grether / Reyes (Dubois, Debussy) Vlaams Radio Koor www.vlaamsradiokoor.be 26 April 2012, Lier Vlaams Radio Koor / Niquet (Dubois, Fauré, Paladilhe, Saint-Saëns, Gounod) 27 April 2012, Merelbeke Vlaams Radio Koor / Niquet (Dubois, Fauré, Paladilhe, Saint-Saëns, Gounod) Canada Festival Classica Inc Association Guillaume Lekeu www.festivalclassica.com 1 June 2012, Saint-Lambert Les Filles de l'Île / Les Chantres musiciens / Patenaude (Dubois) 2 June 2012, Saint-Lambert Chœur de la Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde / Malgoire (Dubois) 3 June 2012, Saint-Lambert Chœur de la Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde / Brousseau (Dubois) 7 July 2012, Verviers Grether / Reyes (Dubois, Debussy) Palais Montcalm www.staatstheater-nuernberg.de 3 March - 26 June 2012, Nuremberg Chor und Orkester des Staatstheater Nürnberg / Rumstadt (Rossini) BELGIUM Brussels Philharmonic www.brusselsphilharmonic.be 3 May 2012, Brussels Brussels Philharmonic / Niquet (Dubois, Debussy, Pierné) Festival Midis-Minimes www.midis-minimes.be 12 July 2012, Brussels Grether / Reyes (Dubois, Debussy) 134 HET FESTIVAL www.palaismontcalm.ca 28 May 2012 (Quebec) Descharmes (Hérold, Schubert) 30 May 2012 (Quebec) Salque / Lesage (Fauré, Saint-Saëns) 2 June 2012 (Quebec) Lapointe (Fauré, Hahn, Duparc) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGO Hartford www.hartfordago.org 17, 18 and 24 February 2012, Hartford Hartford Schola Cantorum / Soli Deo Gloria Orchestra / Nenéndez / Innocenzi (Dubois, Saint-Saëns, Franck) AGO Manhattan www.hartfordago.org 20 and 21 February 2012, New York Organists of the AGO (Dubois, Gounod, SaintSaëns, Franck) France Abbaye aux Dames – Jeune Orchestre atlantique www.abbayeauxdames.org 11 December 2011, Châteauroux Jeune Orchestre atlantique / Stern / Fadeeva (Gluck, Hérold, Cherubini) 12 December 2011, Gradignan Jeune Orchestre atlantique / Stern / Fadeeva (Gluck, Hérold, Cherubini) 13 December 2011, Saintes Jeune Orchestre atlantique / Stern / Fadeeva (Gluck, Hérold, Cherubini) Académie de Villecroze www.academie-villecroze.com 2 October 2011, Levallois-Perret Leroux / Biros / Cohen (Ravel) 8 October 2011, Monfort-L’Amaury Leroux / Biros / Cohen (Ravel) 16 October 2011, Arles Leroux / Biros / Cohen (Ravel) Arpèges en Gascogne http://arpegesengascogne.online.fr 24 July 2011, Tillac L'Armée des Romantiques (Dubois, Fauré, Saint-Saëns) Arsenal www.arsenal-metz.fr 3 November 2011, Metz Quatuor Alma Amadé / Delunsch / Jude (Gouvy, Wagner, Chausson) Centre culturel de l'Entente cordiale – Château d'Hardelot www.chateau-hardelot.fr June 2012, Hardelot Quatuor Diotima (Dubois, d’Indy, Onslow) Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles www.cmbv.fr 2 October 2011, Montpellier Le Concert Spirituel / Niquet (Sacchini, Grétry) 4 October 2011, Versailles Le Concert Spirituel / Niquet (Sacchini, Grétry) 15 November 2011, Versailles I Virtuosi delle Muse / Molardi / Guyonnet / Invernizzi (Rigel, Berton, Dalayrac, Gossec, Devienne, Grétry) Château Abbaye de Cassan www.chateau-cassan.com 24 August 2011, Cassan Morozova (Chopin, Thalberg, Alkan) Château de Versailles Spectacles www.chateauversailles.fr 10 and 12 December 2011, Versailles Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Rhorer (Bach) 135 PARTNeRships Cité de la musique En Terre Romantique Festival Berlioz Festival d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence www.cite-musique.fr 13 November 2011, Paris Lubimov (Dussek, Hérold, Beethoven, Schubert) 31 January 2012, Paris Brussels Philharmonic / Vlaams Radio Koor / Tabachnik (Debussy) 2 February 2012, Paris Les Siècles / Roth / Planès (Debussy, Hurel) 29 February 2012, Paris Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) www.cg57.fr 14 October 2011, Metz Orchestre national de Lorraine / Mercier (Guilmant, Franck, Saint-Saëns) 15 October 2011, Metz Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset / Gens (Cherubini, Gossec, Kreutzer, Verdi, Méhul, Meyerbeer) 15 October 2011, Metz Quatuor Ardeo / Violi (Dubois, Pierné) 16 October 2011, Metz Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Rhorer / Chauvin / Chamayou (Onslow, Reber, Liszt, Berlioz) 15 November 2011, Metz Orchestre national de chambre du Luxembourg / Brochot (Thomas) www.festivalberlioz.com 20 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Chamayou (Liszt) 18 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André La Chambre Philharmonique / Krivine / Antonacci (Berlioz, Liszt) 19 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Le Cercle de l'Harmonie / Rhorer / Chauvin / Chamayou (Onslow, Reber, Liszt, Berlioz) 19 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Muraro (Berlioz/Liszt) 20 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Les Siècles / Roth (Liszt, Berlioz) 21 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Les Solistes des Siècles / Les Cris de Paris / Jourdain (Dubois) 21 August 2011, Penol Violi (Godard, Krüger, Berlioz/Schall, Ravel, Liszt) 24 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Anima Eterna Brugge / Von Immerseel / Amoyel (Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Berlioz) 24 August 2011, Le Grand-Lemps Quintette à vent de Paris (Onslow, Reicha, Taffanel, Bizet/Walter) 26 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Orchestre National d'Île-de-France / Levi / Rysanov (Wagner, Liszt, Berlioz) 27 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Orchestre national de Lyon / Inbal / Castronovo (Berlioz, Liszt) 28 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz / Chœur Britten / Roth (Berlioz, Martini, Rouget de Lisle/ Berlioz) 28 August 2011, La-Côte-Saint-André Trio George Sand (Liszt, Bizet, Gounod, Boulanger, Massenet, Berlioz) www.festival-aix.com 20 July 2011, Aix-en-Provence Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset / Gens (Cherubini, Gossec, Kreutzer, Verdi, Méhul, Meyerbeer) Concerts de l’Abbaye de Talloires www.abbaye-talloires.com 21 April 2012, Talloires Grether / Reyes (Pierné, Dubois, Fauré, Bruneau, Debussy) Conservatoire de Nantes www.conservatoire.nantes.fr April 2012, Nantes Eidi / Rouchon (Dubois, Schmitt, Kœchlin, La Presle, Fauré, Aubert, Inghelbrecht) Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon www.cnsmd-lyon.fr September 2012, Lyon Eidi / Rouchon (Dubois, Schmitt, Koechlin, La Presle, Fauré, Aubert, Inghelbrecht) Contrepoints62 www.musiques62.fr 17 September 2011, Boulogne-sur-Mer Vlaams Radio Koor / Niquet (Dubois, Fauré, Paladilhe, Saint-Saëns, Gounod) 136 Festival Ars Terra www.arsterra.fr 2 June 2011, Dominois Grelier / Camatte / Normant (Dubois, Tournier, Saint-Saëns, Debussy) 22 July 2011, Rue Convergences / Leleu (Dubois, Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saëns) 23 July 2011, Vron Dubois / Raës (Dubois, Rachmaninov, Schumann) 24 July 2011, Valloires Quatuor Raphaël (Dubois, Debussy) 26 July 2011, Argoules Dobresco (Dubois, Saint-Saëns, Chopin, Debussy) 27 July 2011, Villers-sur-Authie Bogdanovic / Gernay (Dubois, Debussy, Fauré, Glière) 27 July 2011, Villers-sur-Authie Quentin de Gromard / Akili (Dubois, Fauré, Massenet, Saint-Saëns) 28 July 2011, Villers-sur-Authie Hamon (Dubois, Chopin, Debussy) 28 July 2011, Villers-sur-Authie Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) Festival international de musique de Besançon Franche-Chomté www.festival-besancon.com 28 September 2011, Besançon Brussels Philharmonic / Niquet (Hérold) 28 September 2011, Salins-les-Bains Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) 29 September 2011, Vesoul Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) Festival de Chambord www.chambord.org 23 July 2011, Chambord Chamayou (Liszt) 26 July 2011, Chambord Fuchs / Cemin (Rossini, Delibes, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Lecocq) Festival de L'Épau – Le Mans www.centre-culturel-de-la-sarthe.com 30 November 2011, L'Épau Descharmes (Dubois, Ravel, Chabrier) May 2012, Le Mans Hoffman / Seilig (Dubois, Boëllmann, Kœchlin) May 2012, Le Mans Ensemble Initium (Enesco, Bonis, d’Indy, Caplet) May 2012, Le Mans Quatuor Cambini – Paris (Gounod, Gouvy, David) May 2012, Le Mans Trio Chausson (Dubois, Chaminade) May 2012, Le Mans Strosser (Dubois, Chabrier) 137 PARTNeRshipS May 2012, Le Mans Bernold / Ceysson / Roussev / Da Silva / Demarquette (Dubois, Debussy, Cras) 24 May 2012, Le Mans Orchestre Poitou-Charentes / Heisser / Coppey (Dubois, Saint-Saëns, Ravel) 31 May 2012, La Ferté-Bernard Les Siècles / Roth (Gounod) 31 May 2012, La Ferté-Bernard Quatuor Debussy / Désert / Stroesser (Saint-Saëns, Dubois) 2 June 2012, Le Mans Quatuor Debussy / Désert / Stroesser (Saint-Saëns, Dubois) Festival de la Chaise-Dieu www.chaise-dieu.com September 2012, La Chaise-Dieu Eidi / Rouchon (Dubois, Schmitt, Kœchlin, La Presle, Fauré, Aubert, Inghelbrecht) Festival de la Vézère www.festival-vezere.com 15 May 2011, Voutezac Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) Festival de musique de Richelieu www.festivalmusiquerichelieu.fr 3 August 2011, Richelieu Morozova (Chopin, Thalberg, Alkan) Festival Pro Musica – Pamiers http://pamiers.promusica.free.fr 20 October 2011, Pamiers La Sinfonie Bohémienne (Catel, Blasius, Duvernoy) Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Festival Jeunes Talents L'Atelier d'Euterpe www.festivalradiofrancemontpellier.com 11 July 2011, Montpellier Orchestre national de Montpellier / Chœur de Radio France / Foster (Halévy) 14 July 2011, Montpellier Les Solistes des Siècles / Les Cris de Paris / Jourdain (Dubois) 25 July 2011, Montpellier Le Concert Spirituel / Niquet (Catel) www.jeunes-talents.org 15 September 2011, Paris Luzzati / Luzzati (Vierne, Fauré, Onslow, Massenet) 2 October 2011, Louveciennes Luzzati / Luzzati (Vierne, Fauré, Onslow, Massenet) 10 November 2011, Paris Béréau / Bonneu (Chausson, Hahn, Debussy, Ravel) 14 January 2012, Paris Luzzati / Luzzati (Vierne, Fauré, Onslow, Massenet) 10 March 2012, Paris Béréau / Bonneu (Chausson, Hahn, Debussy, Ravel) www.atelier-euterpe.net 25 November 2011, Paris Tanimura / Droy / Villard (Joncières, Massé, Donizetti, Gounod) 3 February 2012, Paris Descharmes (Hérold) 23 March 2012, Paris Quatuor Ardeo / Violi (Dubois, Hahn) 18 May 2012, Paris Kalinine / Le Hérissier (Gounod, Chabrier, Offenbach, Bizet, Thomas) Festival de Saint-Riquier www.festival-de-saint-riquier.fr 10 July 2011, Oneux Quatuor Ardeo / Violi (Dubois, Hahn) 11 July 2011, Oneux Papavrami / Leroy / Moubarak (Franck, Debussy, Fauré) 11 July 2011, Saint-Riquier Contraste / Léger / Deshayes / Sandre (Ravel, Hahn, Debussy) 19 July 2011, Saint-Riquier Orchestre de Picardie / Accentus / Equilbey (Fauré, Debussy) Festival de musique à Saint-Victor http://saintvictor.chez.com 8 December 2011, Marseille Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) Festival des Forêts www.festivaldesforets.fr 14 July 2012 Grether / Reyes (Pierné, Dubois, Fauré, Bruneau, Debussy) Festival de quatuor à cordes du Luberon www.quatuors-luberon.org 20 August 2011, Gordes Quatuor Manfred (Jadin, Franck) 138 Fondation Royaumont www.royaumont.com 8 May 2011, Royaumont Ensemble Voix Célestes / Cortinovis (Dubois, Dietsch, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gounod, Fauré) 9 October 2011, Royaumont Ensemble Voix Célestes / Cortinovis (Dubois, Dietsch, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gounod, Fauré) La Courroie www.lacourroie.org 14 October 2011, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Descharmes (Hérold) 20 October 2011, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Quintette à vent de Paris (Onslow, Reicha, Taffanel, Bizet/Walter) 11 December 2011, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Trio AnPaPié (Jadin) 1 March 2012, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Christoyannis / Apostolopoulos (Reyer, Reber, Lalo, Massenet, Saint-Saëns) Grand Théâtre de Provence Les Automnales www.grandtheatre.fr 7 February 2012, Aix-en-Provence Bernold / Caussé / Pierlot / Charlier (Farrenc, Mozart, Beethoven) 9 February 2012, Aix-en-Provence Jarrousky / Ducros (Hahn, Saint-Saëns, Dupont, Chausson, Massenet, Fauré) 12 April 2012, Aix-en-Provence Les Siècles / Roth / Planès (Dubois, Debussy) Les Concerts de Saint-Sulpice Institut Culturel Italien de Paris www.iicparigi.esteri.it 6 October 2011, Paris Bellucci (Liszt) www.automnalesdecompiegne.com 13 October 2011, Compiègne Violi (Godard, Krüger, Schall, Ravel, Liszt) www.stsulpice.com 20 September 2012, Paris Innocenzi / Gonzalez Toro… (Dubois) Les Concerts de Vollore http://concertsdevollore.com 14 July 2011, Vollore Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) 139 PARTNeRshipS 16 July 2011, Palladuc Grether / Reyes (Dubois, Pierné, Fauré, Bruneau, Debussy) 20 July 2011, Arconsat Ensemble Voix Célestes / Cortinovis (Dubois, Dietsch, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gounod, Fauré) 30 July 2011, Escoutoux Quatuor Satie / Martin (Dubois, La Tombelle, Lenormand) 10 July 2012, Viscomtat (France) Duo Atyopsis (Berlioz, Savari, Demersseman, Caplet, Debussy) Les Heures romantiques Opéra Comique Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse www.lillepianosfestival.fr 18 June 2011, Lille Chamayou (Liszt) 18 June 2011, Lille Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) www.opera-comique.com 2 - 8 January 2012, Paris Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Rhorer (J. C. Bach) 5 January 2012, Paris Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Rhorer / Chauvin (Gossec, Rigel, Leduc, Bach, Haydn) 6 and 8 January 2012, Paris Quatuor Cambini – Paris (Gounod, Gouvy, David) 5 - 15 April 2012, Paris Orchestre et chœur du Théâtre royal de la Monnaie / Davin (Auber) 10 April 2012, Paris Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset / Gens (Cherubini, Gossec, Kreutzer, Verdi, Méhul, Meyerbeer) 20 May 2012 , Paris Les Siècles / Roth / Jude (Massenet) 18 - 28 June 2012, Paris Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Accentus / Hussain (Bizet) www.mulhouse.fr 28 and 29 October 2011, Mulhouse Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse / Klajner / James (Dubois, Strauss, Brahms) 25 and 26 November 2011, Mulhouse Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse / Jones / Sitkowetski (Dubois, Chausson, Sarasate, Poulenc) 30 and 31 March 2012, Mulhouse Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse / Klajner / Ceysson (Dubois, Ehrenfellner, Tchaïkovsky) 5 and 6 June 2012, Mulhouse Solistes de l’Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse (Dubois) Mélomania www.mairie4.paris.fr 27 August 2011, Paris Morozova (Chopin, Thalberg, Alkan) www.heuresromantiques.org May 2012, Monthodon Eidi / Rouchon (Dubois, Schmitt, Kœchlin, La Presle, Fauré, Aubert, Inghelbrecht) Moselle Arts Vivants Les Musicales de Normandie Musicales des Coteaux de Gimone www.musicales-normandie.com 22 July 2011, Le Havre Chamayou (Liszt) 12 August 2011, Varengeville-sur-mer Fuchs / Cemin (Rossini, Delibes, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Lecocq) 26 August 2011, Rouen Les Solistes des Siècles / Les Cris de Paris / Jourdain (Dubois) 17 September 2011, Côte d’Albâtre Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) 18 September 2011, Côte d’Albâtre Trio Arcadis (Chausson, Gouvy, Dubois) 20 September 2011, Côte d’Albâtre Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) 140 Lille Piano Festival www.cg57.fr 4 December 2011, Rome Quatuor Ardeo / Violi (Dubois, Pierné) www.musicalesdescoteaux.fr 22 July 2011, Simorre L'Armée des Romantiques (Dubois, Fauré, Saint-Saëns) Musiques en voûtes www.quatuormanfred.com 27 and 28 August 2011 Quatuor Manfred (Jadin, Franck) Musicales du Golfe du Morbihan www.musicalesdugolfe.com 2 August 2011, Saint-Avé Duo Atyopsis (Berlioz, Savari, Demersseman, Caplet, Debussy) Opéra de Lille www.opera-lille.fr 15 February 2012 Fuchs / Cemin (Rossini, Delibes, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Lecocq, Gounod, Chabrier) Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie www.operaderouen.fr 9 February 2012, Rouen Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen / Hermus / Peters (Saint-Saëns, Fauré) Orchestre de Picardie www.orchestredepicardie.fr 4 November 2011, Compiègne Orchestre de Picardie / van Beek / Neuburger (Boieldieu, Gluck, Hérold, Bizet) 5 November 2011, Abbeville Orchestre de Picardie / van Beek / Neuburger (Boieldieu, Gluck, Hérold, Bizet) Opéra-Théâtre de Metz http://opera.metzmetropole.fr 15 November 2011 (Metz) Orchestre national de chambre du Luxembourg / Brochot (Thomas) 18, 20 and 22 November 2011 (Metz) Orchestre national de Lorraine / Chœur et ballet de l’Opéra-Théâtre de Metz / Mercier (Thomas) Palais Fesch www.musee-fesch.com 20 November 2011, Ajaccio Bizjak / Bizjak (Chopin, Onslow, Ravel, Chabrier) 15 January 2012, Ajaccio Kalinine / Le Hérissier (Gounod, Chabrier, Offenbach, Bizet, Thomas) 20 May 2012, Ajaccio L'Armée des Romantiques (Dubois, Berlioz, Duparc, Fauré, Saint-Saëns) 141 PARTNeRshipS Piano aux Jacobins Solistes aux Serres d'Auteuil – Ars Mobilis www.pianojacobins.com 30 May 2011, Xiamen (China) Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) 3 June 2011, Qingdao (China) Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) 4 June 2011, Beijing (China) Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) 2 September 2011, Toulouse Chamayou (Liszt) 10 September 2011, Toulouse Bacchetti (Diémer, Dubois, Cherubini, Debussy, Chopin, Poulenc) 19 September 2011, Toulouse Violi (Godard, Krüger, Schall, Ravel, Liszt) www.ars-mobilis.com 27 August 2011, Paris Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, SaintSaëns, Chopin) 1 September 2012, Paris Grether / Reyes (Dubois, Pierné, Fauré, Bruneau, Debussy) Quatuors à Bordeaux www.quatuorabordeaux.com 12 May 2012, Bordeaux Quatuor Raphaël (Dubois, Debussy) Quatuors à Saint-Roch – Ars Mobilis www.ars-mobilis.com 17 March 2012, Paris Quatuor Cambini – Paris (Gounod, Gouvy, David) Salon de musique de Bardou 25 August 2011, Mons-la-Rivalle Morozova (Chopin, Thalberg, Alkan) Société des amis de la cathédrale de Reims www.amis-cathedrale-reims.fr 26 August 2011, Reims Dubois / Boucher (Dubois) 27 August 2011, Reims Le Chœur international / Brousseau (Dubois) 142 Théâtre d'Arras www.theatredarras.com 14 April 2012, Arras Le Concert Spirituel / Niquet (Grétry, Sacchini) Théâtre du Capitole www.theatre-du-capitole.fr 13 October 2011, Toulouse Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset / Gens (Cherubini, Gossec, Kreutzer, Verdi, Méhul, Meyerbeer) Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne www.theatre-imperial.com 15 November 2011, Compiègne Les Solistes des Siècles / Jude / Désert (Dubois, Saint-Saëns) 5 February 2012, Compiègne Fuchs / Cemin (Rossini, Delibes, Boieldieu, Meyerbeer, Lecocq) Tons voisins www.tonsvoisins.com 29 June 2011, Albi Escale chromatique / Crowther (Dubois, Liszt, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Franck) 30 June 2011, Albi Dubois / Huttenlocher / Jude / Le Bozec… (Dubois, Liszt, Berlioz, Bottesini) HUNGARY Institut français of Budapest www.inst-france.hu 30 March 2012, Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra / Pâris (Dukas, Saint-Saëns, Debussy/Busser) MAV Symphony Orchestra www.mavzenekar.hu 30 March 2012, Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra / Pâris / Bogany (Dukas, Saint-Saëns, Debussy/Busser) Amici della Musica di Padova www.amicimusicapadova.org 26 October 2011, Padua Beaugiraud / Bensmail (Widerkehr, Jadin, Saint-Saëns, Vierne, Kœchlin) 28 February 2012, Padua Graffin / Désert (Debussy, Grieg) Città di Venezia, Assessorato alle Attività culturali, Teatro Toniolo Amici della Musica di Mestre ItalY www.teatrotoniolo.info www.amicidellamusicadimestre.it 23 October 2011, Mestre Concerto Köln / Jakowicz (Méhul, Paganini, Reber) Académie de France in Rome Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello www.villamedici.it 6 October 2011, Rome Descharmes (Hérold) 7 October 2011, Rome Trio Chausson (Dubois, Chaminade) 8 October 2011, Rome Velletaz / Borghi / Kalinine / Do / Pruvot / Jamin (Hüe, d'Ollone, Hillemacher, Wormser) Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia www.santacecilia.it 13 April 2012, Rome Les Siècles / Roth / Planès (Dubois, Debussy) Ambassade de France en Italie www.ambafrance-it.org 16 November 2011, Florence Violi (Godard, Krüger, Schall, Ravel, Liszt) 17 November 2011, Florence Bizjak / Bizjak (Chopin, Boëly, Jadin, Onslow) 18 November 2011, Florence Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Chopin) www.conseve.net 18 October 2011, Venice Octuor de France (Reicha, Blanc) 22 October 2011, Venice Quintette à vent de Paris (Reicha, Onslow, Taffanel, Bizet) 25 February 2012, Venice Ensemble Initium (d’Indy, Caplet, Bonis, Enesco) 8 May 2012, Venice L'Armée des Romantiques (Fauré, Dubois, Saint-Saëns) Emilia Romagna Festival www.erfestival.org 13 September 2011, Forlì Orchestra Toscanini / Latham- Koenig / Prosseda (Gounod, Verdi, Carrara) Fondazione Siotto May 2012, Cagliari Eidi / Rouchon (Dubois, Schmitt, Kœchlin, La Presle, Fauré, Aubert, Inghelbrecht) 143 PARTNeRship Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari www.palazzomontanari.com 19 February, Vicenza Bizjak / Bizjak (Chopin, Onslow, Ravel, Chabrier) 26 February, Vicenza Ensemble Initium (d’Indy, Caplet, Bonis, Enesco) Istituto francese di Firenze www.france-italia.it/FIRENZE 16 November 2011, Florence Violi (Godard, Krüger, Schall, Ravel, Liszt) 17 November 2011, Florence Bizjak / Bizjak (Chopin, Boëly, Jadin, Onslow) 18 November 2011, Florence Couteau (Boëly, Montgeroult, Alkan, Saint-Saëns, Chopin) RussIA Festival des Palais – Institut français de Saint-Pétersbourg www.ifspb.com 1 June 2011, St. Petersburg Quatuor Cambini – Paris (Gounod, Gouvy, David) SLOVAKIA Orchestre de la Philharmonie Slovaque www.filharmonia.sk 16 and 17 February 2012, Bratislava Orchestre de la Philharmonie Slovaque / Pâris (Magnard, Saint-Saëns, Debussy) Musica Cathedralis 14 May 2011, Bergamo Ensemble Voix Célestes / Cortinovis (Dubois, Dietsch, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Gounod, Fauré) SLOVENIA Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone www.opera.si 24, 26 and 28 November 2011, Ljubljana Le Cercle de l’Harmonie / Rhorer (Bach) www.teatromonfalcone.it 28 October 2011, Monfalcone Beaugiraud / Bensmail (Widerkehr, Jadin, Saint-Saëns, Vierne, Kœchlin) Tempo d’Orchestra www.ocmantova.com 19 November 2011, Mantua I Virtuosi delle Muse / Molardi (Rigel, Berton, Dalayrac, Gossec, Devienne, Grétry) Bologna Festival www.bolognafestival.it May 2012, Bologna Quatuor Cambini – Paris (Gounod, Gouvy, David) 144 PRACTICAL INFORMATION SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana SWITZERLAND Lucerne Festival www.lucernefestival.ch 14 August 2011, Lucerne Les Talens Lyriques / Rousset / Gens (Cherubini, Gossec, Kreutzer, Verdi, Méhul, Meyerbeer) Ville de Genève www.ville-geneve.ch 30 September 2012, Geneva Maîtrise de Radio France / Innocenzi / Jeannin (Dubois, Franck, Saint-Saëns) 145 GENERAL CALENDAR MAY 2011 8 Ensemble Voix Célestes | Cortinovis p. 57 Abbaye, Royaumont (France) 14 Ensemble Voix Célestes | Cortinovis p. 57 Duomo, Bergamo (Italy) 15 Couteau p. 25 Château du Saillant de Voutezac (France) 30 Couteau p. 25 Xiamen (China) JUne 2011 1 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Marble Palace (Russian Museum), St. Petersburg (Russia) 2 Grelier | Camatte | Normant p. 63 Église, Dominois (France) 3 Couteau p. 25 Qingdao (China) 4 Couteau p. 25 Beijing (China) 10 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 Temple du Foyer de l’Âme, Paris (France) 18 Couteau p. 25 Lille (France) 18 Chamayou p. 25 Conservatoire de Lille (France) 29 Escale chromatique | Crowther p. 57 Sainte-Cécile Cathedral, Albi (France) 30 Dubois | Huttenlocher | Jude | Le Bozec… p. 73 Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rayssac, Albi (France) 146 JULY 2011 3 L’Armée des Romantiques p. 73 Maladredie Saint-Lazare, Beauvais (France) 10 Quatuor Ardeo | Violi p. 67 Église, Oneux (France) 11 Papavrami | Leroy | Moubarak p. 38 Église, Oneux (France) 11 Contraste | Léger | Deshayes | Sandre p. 39 Abbatiale, Saint-Riquier (France) 11 La Magicienne (1858) p. 78 Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier (France) 14 Couteau p. 25 Château de Vollore (France) 14 Les Solistes de Siècles | Les Cris de Paris | Jourdain p. 58 Salle Pasteur, Montpellier (France) 14 Symposium p. 86 Conducting in the nineteenth century Centre d’art moderne et contemporain, La Spezia (Italy) 15 Symposium p. 86 Conducting in the nineteenth century Centre d’art moderne et contemporain, La Spezia (Italy) 16 Symposium p. 86 Conducting in the nineteenth century Centre d’art moderne et contemporain, La Spezia (Italy) 16 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Église, Palladuc (France) 19 Orchestre de Picardie | Accentus | Equilbey p. 58 Abbatiale, Saint-Riquier (France) 20 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France) 20 Ensemble Voix Célestes | Cortinovis p. 57 Église, Arconsat (France) 22 Convergences | Leleu p. 63 Église, Rue (France) 22 Chamayou p. 25 Jardins suspendus, Le Havre (France) 22 L’Armée des Romantiques p. 73 Église, Simorre (France) 23 Chamayou p. 25 Château de Chambord (France) 23 Dubois | Raës p. 74 Église, Vron (France) 24 L’Armée des Romantiques p. 73 Église, Tillac (France) 24 Quatuor Raphaël p. 63 Abbeye, Valloires (France) 25 Sémiramis (1802) p. 78 Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier (France) 26 Fuchs | Cemin p. 33 Château de Chambord (France) 26 Dobresco p. 68 Église, Argoules (France) 27 Quentin de Gromard | Akili p. 68 Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) 27 Bogdanovic | Gernay p. 68 Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) 28 Couteau p. 25 Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) 28 Hamon p. 69 Église, Villers-sur-Authie (France) 30 Quatuor Satie | Martin p. 69 Église, Escoutoux (France) AUGUST 2011 2 Duo Atyopsis p. 29 Chapelle Notre-Dame du Loc, Saint-Avé (France) 3 Morozova p. 26 Dôme de Richelieu (France) 10 Octuor de France p. 29 Chapelle Saint-Philibert, Trégunc (France) 11 Octuor de France p. 29 Orangerie de Bagatelle, Paris (France) 12 Fuchs | Cemin p. 33 Salon du Bois des Moutiers, Varengeville-sur-mer (France) 14 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Kultur und Kongresszentrum, Lucerne (Switzerland) 18 La Chambre Philharmonique | Krivine p. 51 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 18 Le Chœur International | Brousseau p. 58 Cathédrale, Montpellier (France) 19 Muraro p. 26 Église, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 19 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Rhorer p. 19 La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 20 Chamayou p. 25 La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 20 Les Siècles | Roth p. 51 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 20 Quatuor Manfred p. 39 Théâtre des Terrasses, Gordes (France) 21 Le Chœur International | Brousseau p. 58 La Madeleine, Paris (France) 21 Violi p. 26 La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 21 Les Solistes de Siècles | Les Cris de Paris | Jourdain p. 58 Chapelle de la fondation d’Auteuil, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 22 Le Chœur International | Brousseau p. 58 Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris (France) 24 Anima Eterna Brugge | Von Immerseel p. 19 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 24 Morozova p. 26 Château-Abbaye de Cassan (France) 24 Quintette à vent de Paris p. 30 La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 24 Symposium p. 86 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music Musée Hector Berlioz, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 25 Morozova p. 26 Salon de musique de Bardou, Mons-la-Trivalle (France) 25 Le Chœur International | Brousseau p. 58 Cathédrale, Metz (France) 25 Symposium p. 86 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music Musée Hector Berlioz, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 26 Symposium p. 86 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music Musée Hector Berlioz, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 147 26 Orchestre National d’Île-de-France | Levi p. 20 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 26 Les Solistes de Siècles | Les Cris de Paris | Jourdain p. 58 Abbatiale de Saint-Ouen, Rouen (France) 26 Dubois | Boucher p. 74 Église Saint-Jacques, Reims (France) 27 Symposium p. 86 The fascination of “singularities” in nineteenth-century French music Musée Hector Berlioz, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 27 Couteau p. 25 Les Serres d’Auteuil, Paris (France) 27 Morozova p. 26 Mairie du 4e arrondissement, Paris (France) 27 Quatuor Manfred p. 39 Théâtre des Terrasses, Gordes (France) 27 Orchestre national de Lyon | Inbal p. 51 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 27 Le Chœur International | Brousseau p. 58 Cathédrale, Reims (France) 28 Quatuor Manfred p. 39 Musiques en voûtes, Bourgogne (France) 28 Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz | Chœur Britten p. 52 Château Louis XI, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) 29 Trio George Sand p. 39 Église, La-Côte-Saint-André (France) SEPTEMBER 2011 2 Chamayou p. 25 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) 4 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Rhorer p. 19 Die Glocke, Bremen (Germany) 10 Bacchetti p. 40 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) 13 Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini di Parma | Latham-Koenig p. 19 Duomo, Forlì (Italy) 15 Luzzati | Luzzati p. 40 Hôpital Sainte-Périne, Paris (France) 17 Couteau p. 25 Côte d’Albâtre (France) 148 17 Vlaams Radio Koor | Niquet p. 59 Église Saint-François, Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) 18 Trio Arcadis p. 40 Côte d’Albâtre (France) 19 Violi p. 26 Saint-Pierre des Cuisines, Toulouse (France) 20 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Côte d’Albâtre (France) 28 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Église Saint-Maurice, Salins-les-Bains (France) 28 La Belle au bois dormant (1829) p. 78 Théâtre musical, Besançon (France) 29 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Théâtre Edwige Feuillère, Vesoul (France) 30 Symposium p. 87 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century Villa Medici Giulini, Briosco (Italy) 31 Symposium p. 87 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century Villa Medici Giulini, Briosco (Italy) OCTOBER 2011 1 Symposium p. 87 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century Villa Medici Giulini, Briosco (Italy) 2 Symposium p. 87 The sound of European music at the time of Liszt. Music in the nineteenth century Villa Medici Giulini, Briosco (Italy) 2 Le Concert Spirituel | Niquet p. 34 Salle Pasteur, Montpellier (France) 2 L’Heure espagnole p. 79 Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Levallois-Perret (France) 2 Luzzati | Luzzati p. 40 Musée-Promenade Marly-le-Roi, Louveciennes (France) 4 Le Concert Spirituel | Niquet p. 34 Opéra Royal, Versailles (France) 6 Bellucci p. 27 Institut culturel italien de Paris (France) 6 Descharmes p. 41 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) 7 Trio Chausson p. 69 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) 8 Fuchs | Cemin p. 33 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 8 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) 8 Velletaz | Borghi | Kalinine | Do | Pruvot | Jamin p. 41 Villa Medici, Rome (Italy) 8 L’Heure espagnole p. 79 Théâtre du Centre municipal des loisirs, Montfort L’Amaury (France) 9 Violi p. 26 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 9 Ensemble Voix Célestes | Cortinovis p. 57 Abbaye, Royaumont (France) 12 Graffin | Devoyon p. 27 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 13 Violi p. 26 Galerie de bal, Palais Impérial de Compiègne (France) 13 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse (France) 13 Symposium p. 87 Théophile Gautier and the Second Empire Palais impérial, Compiègne (France) 14 Symposium p. 87 Théophile Gautier and the Second Empire Palais impérial, Compiègne (France) 14 Orchestre national de Lorraine | Mercier p. 20 Arsenal, Metz (France) 14 Descharmes p. 41 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue (France) 15 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Arsenal, Metz (France) 15 Quatuor Ardeo | Violi p. 67 Arsenal, Metz (France) 16 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Rhorer p. 19 Arsenal, Metz (France) 16 L’Heure espagnole p. 79 Chapelle du Méjean, Arles (France) 18 Octuor de France p. 29 Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) 20 Quintette à vent de Paris p. 30 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue (France) 20 La Sinfonie Bohémienne p. 30 Salle Aglaé Moyne, Pamiers (France) 22 Duo Atyopsis p. 29 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 22 Quintette à vent de Paris p. 30 Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) 23 Concerto Köln | Moulds p. 20 Teatro Toniolo, Mestre (Italy) 26 Beaugiraud | Bensmail p. 30 Auditorium C. Pollini, Padua (Italy) 26 Symposium p. 88 Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 27 Symposium p. 88 Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 28 Symposium p. 88 Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 28 Beaugiraud | Bensmail p. 30 Teatro Comunale di Monfalcone (Italy) 28 Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Klajner p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) 29 Symposium p. 88 Notes on the Unity of Italy: opera, Napoleon III and political identity Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 149 29 Beaugiraud | Bensmail p. 30 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 29 Quatuor Manfred p. 39 Concert Hall, Conservatory (Singapore) 29 Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Klajner p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) 30 La Sinfonie Bohemiènne p. 30 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) NOVEMBER 2011 Quatuor Manfred p. 39 Hong-Kong (China) 3 Quatuor Alma Amadè | Delunsch | Jude p. 42 Arsenal, Metz (France) 4 Orchestre de Picardie | van Beek p. 21 Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne (France) 4 Padoan | Barutti p. 31 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 5 Orchestre de Picardie | van Beek p. 21 Théâtre d’Abbeville (France) 10 Béréau | Bonneu p. 42 Hôpital Sainte Périne, Paris (France) 13 Morozova p. 26 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 13 Lubimov p. 27 Amphithéâtre de la Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) 15 I Virtuosi delle Muse | Molardi p. 34 Opéra Royal, Versailles (France) 15 Orchestre national de chambre du Luxembourg | Brochot p. 59 Arsenal, Metz (France) 15 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne (France) 16 Morozova p. 26 Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) 16 Violi p. 26 Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) 17 I Virtuosi delle Muse | Molardi p. 34 Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) 17 Bizjak | Bizjak p. 42 Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) 150 18 Couteau p. 25 Istituto francese, Florence (Italy) 18 Françoise de Rimini (1882) p. 79 Opéra-Théâtre de Metz (France) 19 Couteau p. 25 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 19 I Virtuosi delle Muse | Molardi p. 34 Teatro Bibiena, Mantua (Italy) 20 Bizjak | Bizjak p. 42 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) 20 Françoise de Rimini (1882) p. 79 Opéra-Théâtre de Metz (France) 22 Françoise de Rimini (1882) p. 79 Opéra-Théâtre de Metz (France) 24 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Theatre, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 25 Tanimura | Droy | Villard p. 43 Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) 25 Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Jones p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) 26 Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Jones p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) 26 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Theatre, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 28 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Theatre, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 30 Descharmes p. 41 Centre Culturel de la Sarthe – Abbaye de L’Épau (France) DECEMBER 2011 1 Symposium p. 88 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Palazzo Ducale, Lucca (Italy) 2 Symposium p. 88 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Palazzo Ducale, Lucca (Italy) 3 Symposium p. 88 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Palazzo Ducale, Lucca (Italy) 4 Quatuor Ardeo | Violi p. 67 Saint-Nicolas des Lorrains, Rome (Italy) 8 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Église Saint-Cannat-les-Prêcheurs, Marseille (France) 10 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Royal du Chateâu de Versailles (France) 11 Jeune Orchestre atlantique | Stern p. 21 Théâtre L’Équinoxe, Châteauroux (France) 11 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue (France) 12 Jeune Orchestre atlantique | Stern p. 21 Théâtre des Quatre-Saisons, Gradignan (France) 12 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Royal du Chateâu de Versailles (France) 13 Jeune Orchestre atlantique | Stern p. 21 Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes (France) 17 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue (France) JANUARY 2012 2 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 4 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 5 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Rhorer p. 31 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 6 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 6 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 8 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 8 Amadis de Gaule (1779) p. 80 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 14 Luzzati | Luzzati p. 40 Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales), Paris (France) 15 Kalinine | Le Hérissier p. 43 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) 16 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 Salle Poirel, Nancy (France) 19 Symposium p. 89 Opera and cultural transfers (1760-1800) Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 20 Symposium p. 89 Opera and cultural transfers (1760-1800) Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 26 Symposium p. 89 Music in Naples during the “French decade” (1806-1815) Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 27 Symposium p. 89 Music in Naples during the “French decade” (1806-1815) Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 28 Symposium p. 89 Music in Naples during the “French decade” (1806-1815) Université François Rabelais, Tours and Auditorium Austerlitz, Musée de l’Armée, Invalides, Paris (France) 31 Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien p. 80 Salle de Concert, Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) FEBRUARY 2012 Innocenzi p. 59 Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston (USA) 2 Les Siècles | Roth p. 21 Salle de Concert, Cité de la Musique, Paris (France) 3 Descharmes p. 41 Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) 4 Velletaz | Borghi | Kalinine | Do | Pruvot | Jamin p. 41 Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) 5 Fuchs | Cemin p. 33 Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne (France) 7 Bernold | Caussé | Pierlot | Charlier p. 31 Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence (France) 7 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 Temple d’Illkirch (France) 8 Tanimura | Droy | Villard p. 43 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 9 Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen | Hermus p. 22 Opéra de Rouen (France) 151 9 Jarrousky | Ducros p. 44 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 11 Descharmes p. 41 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 12 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 15 Fuchs | Cemin p. 33 Opéra de Lille (France) 16 Descharmes | Vichard p. 44 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 16 Orchestre de la Philharmonie Slovaque | Pâris p. 22 Old Opéra House, Bratislava (Slovak Republic) 17 Orchestre de la Philharmonie Slovaque | Pâris p. 22 Old Opéra House, Bratislava (Slovak Republic) 17 Schola Cantorum de Hartford | Soli Deo Gloria Orchestra p. 60 The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford (USA) 18 Schola Cantorum de Hartford | Soli Deo Gloria Orchestra p. 60 The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford (USA) 18 Bacchetti p. 40 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 18 Bizjak | Bizjak p. 42 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 19 Trio Arcadis p. 40 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 19 Bizjak | Bizjak p. 42 Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza (Italy) 20 Organistes de l’American Guild of Organists p. 60 St. Ignatius Loyola, New York (USA) 21 Organistes de l’American Guild of Organists p. 60 The Brick Presbyterian Church, New York (USA) 24 Schola Cantorum de Hartford | Soli Deo Gloria Orchestra p. 60 The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford (USA) 25 Ensemble Initium p. 45 Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) 26 Ensemble Initium p. 45 Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza (Italy) 28 Trio AnPaPié p. 38 Arsenal, Metz (France) 28 Graffin | Désert p. 46 Auditorium C. Pollini, Padua (Italy) 152 28 Christoyannis | Apostolopoulos p. 45 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 29 Les Solistes des Siècles | Jude | Désert p. 64 Amphithéâtre de la Cité de la musique, Paris (France) MARCH 2012 Hautes Écoles de Musique de Genève et de Lausanne p. 64 Théâtre de La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) 1Christoyannis | Apostolopoulos p. 45 La Courroie, Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue (France) 3 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 10 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 10 Béréau | Bonneu p. 42 Hôtel de Soubise (Archives nationales), Paris (France) 11 Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Rohrer p. 31 Philharmonie de Cologne (Germany) 12 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 17 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Chapelle du Calvaire, Paris (France) 18 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 23 Quatuor Ardeo | Violi p. 67 Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) 24 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 29 Symposium p. 90 Rousseau’s Dictionary of Music and its reception in Europe Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris (France) 30 Symposium p. 90 Rousseau’s Dictionary of Music and its reception in Europe Université Paris Ouest Nanterre and École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Paris (France) 30 MAV Symphony Orchestra | Pâris p. 22 RaM Colosseum Center, Budapest (Hungary) 30 30 31 31 Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Klajner p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) Hautes Écoles de Musique de Genève et de Lausanne p. 64 Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille, Paris (France) Hautes Écoles de Musique de Genève et de Lausanne p. 64 Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille, Paris (France) Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse | Klajner p. 55 La Filature, Mulhouse (France) APRIL 2012 Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Auditorium, Conservatoire de Nantes (France) Symposium p. 90 The Paris Conservatoire under the directorships of Thomas, Dubois and Fauré (1871-1920) Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, Paris (France) 3 Symposium p. 91 “Grand opéra”: a genre and a model Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 4 Symposium p. 91 “Grand opéra”: a genre and a model Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 4 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 5 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 7 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 9 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 10 Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset p. 33 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 10 Les Siècles | Roth p. 52 Le Mail, Soisson (France) 11 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 11 Les Siècles | Roth p. 52 Monte Carlo (Monaco) 12 Les Siècles | Roth p. 52 Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France) 13 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 13 Les Siècles | Roth p. 52 Auditorium Parco della musica, Rome (Italy) 14 Le Concert Spirituel | Niquet p. 34 Théâtre d'Arras (France) 14 Quatuor Ardeo | Violi p. 67 Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) 14 Trio Chausson p. 69 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 15 La Muette de Portici (1828) p. 82 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 15 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 15 Les Siècles | Roth p. 52 Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) 21 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Abbaye, Talloires (France) 26 Vlaams Radio Koor | Niquet p. 59 Jezuïetenkerk, Lier (Belgium) 27 Berliner Symphoniker | Shambadal p. 23 Teatro Comunale, Pordenone (Italy) 27 Vlaams Radio Koor | Niquet p. 59 Florakerk, Merelbeke (Belgium) 28 Quatuor Diotima p. 64 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 28 Quatuor Raphaël p. 63 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 29 Vlaams Radio Koor | Niquet p. 59 Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (Italy) MAY 2012 Quatuor Cambini – Paris p. 38 Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Bologna (Italy) Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Cagliari (Italy) Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Monthodon (France) 153 Hoffman | Seilig p. 71 Le Mans (France) Bernold | Ceysson | Roussev | Da Silva | Demarquette p. 65 Le Mans (France) Trio Chausson p. 69 Le Mans (France) Strosser p. 70 Le Mans (France) 3 Brussels Philharmonic | Niquet p. 52 Salle Flagey, Brussels (Belgium) 3 Coppey | Guy p. 70 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 5 Brussels Philharmonic | Niquet p. 52 Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice (Italy) 6 Berliner Symphoniker | Shambadal p. 23 Philharmonie Berlin (Germany) 6 Trio Portici p. 70 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 6 Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) 8 L’Armée des Romantiques p. 73 Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice (Italy) 12 Quatuor Raphaël p. 63 Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux (France) 17 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 18 Kalinine | Le Hérissier p. 43 Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris (France) 19 Tomassi | Borghi | Zappa p. 71 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 20 L’Armée des Romantiques p. 73 Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France) 20 Les Siècles | Roth p. 53 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 20 Quatuor Satie | Martin p. 69 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) 24 Orchestre Poitou-Charentes | Heisser p. 53 Le Mans (France) 26 Turetta p. 60 Basilica dei Frari, Venice (Italy) 154 26 27 28 30 31 31 31 Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Dubois | Godin p. 71 Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice (Italy) Descharmes p. 41 Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Salque | Lesage p. 46 Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Les Siècles | Roth p. 60 Complexe Athéna, La Ferté-Bernard (France) Guillaume Tell (1829) p. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) Quatuor Debussy | Désert | Strosser p. 65 La Ferté-Bernard (France) JUNE 2012 1 2 2 2 3 5 6 17 18 Quatuor Diotima p. 64 Château d’Hardelot (France) Les Filles de l’Île | Les Chantres musiciens | Patenaude p. 61 Église, Saint-Lambert (Canada) Lapointe p. 46 Palais Montcalm, Quebec (Canada) Quatuor Debussy | Désert | Strosser p. 65 Le Mans (France) Chœur de la Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde | Malgoire p. 65 Église, Saint-Lambert (Canada) Chœur de la Société philharmonique du Nouveau Monde | Brousseau p. 61 Église, Saint-Lambert (Canada) Solistes de l’Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse p. 55 Musée de l’impression sur étoffe, Mulhouse (France) Solistes de l’Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse p. 55 Musée de l’impression sur étoffe, Mulhouse (France) Roth p. 61 Église, Saint-Sulpice, Paris (France) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) 19 20 20 22 24 26 26 28 Symposium p. 91 Exoticism and opera Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Symposium p. 91 Exoticism and opera Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) Guillaume Tell (1829) pag. 81 Opernhaus, Nüremberg (Germany) Les Pêcheurs de perles (1863) p. 81 Opéra Comique, Paris (France) SEPTEMBER 2012 1 20 30 Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Festival de La Chaise-Dieu (France) Eidi | Rouchon p. 74 Salle Varèse, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Lyon (France) Grether | Reyes p. 67 Serres d’Auteuil, Paris (France) Innocenzi | Gonzalez Toro… p. 61 Église, Saint-Sulpice, Paris (France) Maîtrise de Radio France | Jeannin p. 61 Victoria Hall, Geneva (Switzerland) JULY 2012 7 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Salle de l’Harmonie de Verviers (Belgium) 10 Duo Atyopsis p. 29 Église, Viscomtat (France) 12 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (Belgium) 13 Grether | Reyes p. 67 30CC / Centre culturel de Leuven (Belgium) 14 Grether | Reyes p. 67 Festival des Forêts (France) 155 CALENDAR OF CONCERTS IN VENICE FESTIVAL VIRTUOSITY 8 OCTOBER – 19 NOVEMBER 2011 FESTIVAL LE SALON ROMANTIQUE 4 – 28 February 2012 FESTIVAL THÉODORE DUBOIS AND OFFICIAL ART 14 APRIL – 27 MAY 2012 Saturday 8 October 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Fuchs, soprano | Cemin, piano 8 p.m. | Scuola Grande di San Rocco Les Talens Lyriques | Rousset, conductor | Gens, soprano Saturday 4 February 8 p.m. | Scuola S. Giovanni Evangelista Velletaz | Borghi | Kalinine | Do | Pruvot, singers Jamin, piano Saturday 14 April 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Trio Chausson 8 p.m. | Scuola S. Giovanni Evangelista Quatuor Ardeo | Violi, piano Sunday 9 October 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Violi, piano Wednesday 12 October 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Graffin, violin | Devoyon, piano Tuesday 18 October 8 p.m. | Conservatorio di musica Octuor de France Saturday 22 October 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Duo Atyopsis 8 p.m. | Conservatorio di musica Quintette à vent de Paris Saturday 11 February 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Descharmes, piano Sunday 12 February 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Quatuor Cambini – Paris Thursday 16 February 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Descharmes, cello | Vichard, piano Saturday 18 February 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Bacchetti, piano Saturday 18 February 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Bizjak | Bizjak, piano Sunday 23 October 9 p.m. | Teatro Toniolo, Mestre Concerto Köln | Moulds, conductor | Jakowicz, violon Sunday 19 February 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Trio Arcadis Saturday 29 October 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Beaugiraud, oboe | Bensmail, piano Saturday 25 February 8 p.m. | Conservatorio di musica Ensemble Initium Sunday 30 October 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane La Sinfonie Bohémienne Tuesday 28 February 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Christoyannis, baritone | Apostolopoulos, piano Friday 4 November 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Padoan, horn | Barutti, piano Sunday 13 November 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Morozova, piano Thursday 17 November 8 p.m. | Scuola S. Giovanni Evangelista I Virtuosi delle Muse | Molardi, piano and conductor Guyonnet, violin solo | Invernizzi, soprano Saturday 19 November 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Couteau, piano 156 Wednesday 8 February 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Tanimura, soprano | Droy, tenor | Villard, piano Sunday 15 April 5 p.m. | Scuola Grande di San Rocco Les Siècles | Roth, conductor | Planès, piano Saturday 28 April | Palazzetto Bru Zane 5 p.m. | Quatuor Raphaël 8 p.m. | Quatuor Diotima Sunday 29 April 5 p.m. | Scuola S. Giovanni Evangelista Vlaams Radio Koor | Niquet, conductor Thursday 3 May 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Coppey, violoncelle | Guy, piano Saturday 5 May 8 p.m. | Scuola Grande di San Rocco Brussels Philharmonic | Niquet, conductor | Ceysson, harp Sunday 6 May 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Trio Portici Tuesday 8 May 8 p.m. | Conservatorio di musica L’Armée des Romantiques Thursday 17 May 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Grether, violin | Reyes, piano Saturday 19 May 8 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Tomassi, soprano | Borghi, mezzo-soprano | Zappa, piano Sunday 20 May 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Quatuor Satie | Martin, piano Saturday 26 May 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Rouchon, baritone | Eidi, piano 8 p.m. | Basilica dei Frari Turetta, organ Sunday 27 May 5 p.m. | Palazzetto Bru Zane Dubois | Godin, piano 157 TICKET PRICES AND BOOKING PRICES Palazzetto Bru Zane One category only 25 euros | 15 euros* Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista Scuola Grande di San Rocco Category 1 30 euros | 20 euros* Category 2 20 euros | 10 euros* Basilica dei Frari Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello One category only 10 euros | 5 euros* Teatro Toniolo, Mestre One category only 30 euros | 22 euros* SEASON TICKETS Save by choosing 3, 6 or 12 concerts from the season of events: Any 3 concerts 60 euros | 35 euros* Any 6 concerts 100 euros | 60 euros* Any 12 concerts 180 euros | 100 euros* *Reduction for students and persons under the age of 28 Reductions Members of: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Touring Club Italiano, Alliance française, Amici della Musica di Mestre, Conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello, Amici della musica di Padova. 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By telephone Palazzetto Bru Zane : + 39 0415211005 Vivaticket Call Center: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. From Italy: 899 666 805 / 89 24 24 From other countries: + 39 0445 230313 Online billetterie@bru-zane.com www.bru-zane.com www.vivaticket.it By fax Send a fax to +39 0415242049 specifying the concert you wish to attend, the number of seats required and the category chosen, and giving the following credit card details: type of card, card number, expiry date, CVV code (the three-digit security code – last 3 numbers – printed on the back of your credit card). 158 159 THE CONCERT VENUES IN VENICE Palazzetto Bru Zane Campiello del Forner o del Marangon San Polo 2368 | 30125 Venice www.bru-zane.com 160 Basilica dei Frari Campo dei Frari San Polo 3072 | 30125 Venice www.basilicadeifrari.it Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello Palazzo Pisani San Marco 2810 | 30124 Venice www.conseve.net Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista San Polo 2454 | 30125 Venice www.scuolasangiovanni.it Scuola Grande di San Rocco Campo San Rocco San Polo 3052 | 30125 Venice www.scuolagrandesanrocco.it Teatro Toniolo P.tta Cesare Battisti, 1 | 30172 Mestre www.teatrotoniolo.info 161 © 2011 - Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre de musique romantique française All rights reserved photograFIC CrEdits © Private collection and Académie de France in Rome TRANSLATIONS Mary Pardoe DESIGN Tapiro PHOTO ORCH_chemollo | Michele Crosera PRINTED BY Cartotecnica Veneziana, Venice Printed on high quality uncoated recycled papers FSC fibre Palazzetto Bru Zane Centre de musique romantique française San Polo 2368, 30125 Venice - Italy ph. +39 041 52 11 005 contact@bru-zane.com www.bru-zane.com