Paris
Orchestre de Paris
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008. 20:00
Salle Pleyel
La Fiancée de Messine, ouverture, op.100
Konzertstück pour quatre cors et orchestre en fa majeur, op.86
Des Knaben Wunderhorn, lieder
Enjoy an evening with the Orchestre de Paris - one of the greatest and most prestigious international orchestras in the world performing at home in the famous and newly renovated Salle Pleyel.
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Eschenbach, Christoph, Conductor
Christoph Eschenbach, born 1940 in Breslau, Germany (today Wroclaw, Poland) is a noted pianist and conductor. Orphaned by World War II, he won numerous first-place piano competition prizes. In 1964 he made his first recording (of Mozart) for Deutsche Grammophon and signed a contract with the label.
Prior to being named to his current positions as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris and the Philadelphia Orchestra, he held principal conducting and directing positions with orchestras in Ludwigshafen and Hamburg (Germany) and the Ravinia Festival (outside Chicago, Illinois). In 1981 he became principal guest conductor of Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and was chief conductor from 1982-86. Other posts include music director of the Houston (1988-99); chief conductor of the Hamburg NDR Symphony (1998-2004); and music director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1994-2003). He has made numerous recordings both as piano soloist and conductor.
He is credited with helping and supporting talented young musicians in their career development including soprano Renée Fleming and pianists Tzimon Barto and Lang Lang.
Goerne, Matthias, Soloist
Bariton
