(c) Orchestre de Chambre de Paris Memories of Florence: Chamber Music at Salle Cortot
Paris, Salle Cortot — Main Hall
About the Event
Two days after her performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Carolin Widmann reunites with five musicians from the Paris Chamber Orchestra for a concert dedicated to the string sextet. This “incredibly difficult” genre, requiring “six independent yet homogeneous voices” (according to Tchaikovsky), reveals its darker side with Schulhoff’s Sextet. This composer, who remains far too little known—the Nazi regime having permanently erased him from memory—was part of the musical avant‐garde of the interwar period. Schoenberg’s influence is evident in this hallucinatory score, which constantly hovers on the fringes of tonality.
Tchaikovsky’s sextet *Souvenir de Florence* returns to a sense of light. After a first movement of prodigious vehemence, the reference to Italy—evident in the sun‐drenched serenade of the second movement—gives way to spirited melodies inspired by Russian folklore.
Program
SCHULHOFF
String Sextet
TCHAIKOVSKY
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Cast / Production
Carolin Widmann violin
Olivia Hughes violin
Jossalyn Jensen viola
Claire Parruitte viola
Benoît Grenet cello
Robin de Talhouët cello
Address
Salle Cortot, 78 rue Cardinet, Paris, France — Google Maps
