Wednesday March 21, from 12 to 1 pm
MED Building Hall
String sextet
With solists of The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie:
- Frédéric Piat, violin
- Johan Veron, violin
- Vanessa Borghi, alto
- Aurélie Métivier, alto
- Nicolas Fritot, cello
- Jean-Sébastien Barbey, cello
This concert’s themes are the mountains, Winter and the Olympic spirit in light of the XXIIIe Winter
Olympics of Pyeong Chang in February 2018.
Except the anecdotic figure of cellist, alpinist and skier Maurice Baquet, friend of photographer
Robert Doisneau, classical music has little associations with the universe of the Winter Olympic
Games. Through this programme of chamber music, the musicians offer an immersion within the
baroque theme of the Olimpiad, written by the great poet Metastasio and thus worked on by
numerous composers.
Faithful to the Olympic spirit, cosmopolitan, this progamme brings us to Korea with a melody
which finds its inspiration exactly where the 23rd Olympiad of 2018 takes place. Then comes the
theme of mountains with a work of Ernest Bloch, written in Savoy, and a creation of Edouard
Delale on the theme of the Olympic disciplines. The rest of the concert presents classical works of
awarded composers during the first Olympiads and who wish to give arts a space – the most
famous of these laureates being Josef Suk. This Spring concert ends on one of the masterpieces
written for this chamber music size: the String Sextet no.1 of Johannes Brahms, composed in
1860.
ANTONIO VIVALDI:
Ouverture de L’olympiade
JESSIE MONTGOMERY:
Strum pour quatuor
JOSEPH SUK:
Méditation sur le choral de Wenceslas
EDOUARD DELALE – création 2018 à l’occasion des Jeux
Jeux d’hiver (Biathlon, Curling, Ski acrobatique, danse sur glace)
KYUNGSHIN IM – création 2018 à l’occasion des jeux
£La Joie de Pyeongshang
JOHANNES BRAHMS:
Sextuor n°2 opus 36, 1er mouvement