Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Takemitsu: Orchestre National d'Ile de France

Over het evenement

Three composers, three languages​​, three sound worlds, apparently so different and still pursuing a common idea: the tribute. Enjoy this extraordinary program at Salle Pleyel in Paris.

Takemitsu's Requiem (1957) pays tribute to one of the composer's fallen friends, Japanese film music composer Fumio Hoyasaka. A tribute to the sensuality of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is also present in the work.

Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody for piano and orchestra sounds like a tribute to the violin virtuoso, Nicolo Paganini, considered by many as the inventor of modern virtuosity.

The Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich is a more 'personal' tribute: the work glorifies the figure of Stalin in the middle of the Soviet era, where the state propaganda and the cult of personality were at their peak. As can be expected, the music is grandiloquent and martial with a unique fascination power.