Ravel, Mozart, Stravinsky: François Leleux, Lionel Bringuier & Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

About the Event

Three acclaimed classics: the ballet that drove Igor Stravinsky’s international success — starring a firebird, but above all, music that was utterly innovative, rhythmic and intense, the images from the Thousand and One Nights that inspired Ravel, and the greatest work for solo oboe in history by Mozart.

The director of the Ballets Russes advised the prima ballerina: “Mark him well; he is a man on the eve of celebrity!” Diaghilev was not mistaken. With The Firebird (1910), Stravinsky began a meteoric and wildly successful career, while remaining faithful to the language that he had marked out in this work: direct, clear and energetic.

François Leleux, a soloist in the best European orchestras, performs the concerto that Mozart dedicated to the oboist of the court of Salzburg, a unique magisterial episode which shows that virtuosos already existed 250 years ago.

The book narrating Scheherazade’s ability to survive by telling stories has inspired dozens of musical works; Ravel also surrendered to it.