Saturday 28, July >  18h Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum

Claude Debussy
A Emma, petite cantate sur grand papier pour le jour de sa fête... pour récitant,
voix de femmes, cloches et piano
(Création)
Franck Ferrari, récitant
René Koering, cloches

Serge Rachmaninov
Six choeurs pour voix de femmes et piano opus 15

Ensemble Vocal Héliade
Frédéric Rubay, piano
Direction Elène Golgevit

Hector Berlioz
La nonne sanglante, extraits de l’Acte I de l’opéra inachevé
Premiere

Catherine Hunold, soprano
Frédéric Antoun, ténor
Franck Ferrari, baryton

20h30 Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum


Aldo Ciccolini, piano

Francis Poulenc
Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre en ré mineur
Gabriele Carcano, 2ème piano

Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto pour piano et orchestre n°4 en ut mineur opus 44

Serge Rachmaninov
Concerto pour piano et orchestre n°2 en ut mineur opus 18

Aldo Ciccolini interprètera les 3 concertos (pour Poulenc, 2ème pianiste : Gabriele Carcano)

With the support of Enclos de la Croix

It has become a ritual, a habit, and the specific mark of the Festival to end with a Bacchanal… Invariably, director René Koering does not want to let anything out—it’s a surprise and no one must know. In truth, this closing concert always has its share of unpredictable events. But this time, from the outset, every music lover will be intrigued by this Nonne sanglante by Berlioz, which is by no means a tall story since it was indeed an opera first performed in Paris in 1854… but with music by Gounod! Based on The Monk by M.G. Lewis, this horrifying work was abandoned by the composer of the Fantastique and Les Troyens; there remain only large fragments from Act I, preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, with the note: ‘To consult and burn after my death’ (!). In the second half, Aldo Ciccolini will enchant us in Poulenc’s Concerto for 2 Pianos—with Gabriele Carcano, who was revealed last summer at Montpellier in a Beethoven recital—, as well as Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No. 4 and Rachmaninov’s Second.

Franck Mallet