Based on a popular Romanian ballad, it extols, through the metamorphosis of nine hunters' sons into majestic stags, belonging to the animal kingdom and the vanity of humans: targeted by their father, they do not want to return to their parents; their wild life is too beautiful, too pure and abundant. A pure summit of beauty with arborescent writing.
‘The deer cries out for fresh water’, the first part of Mendelssohn's Psalm 42, may have inspired Bartók's masterpiece, in which the same animal sings of the treasure of spring water.
Under Pierre Fouchenneret's incandescent bow, in counterpoint: Bartók's First Rhapsody and Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor. The violin, a wild instrument, deeply forested too !
"The face-to-face encounter between two musicians always has special virtues: here is a single evening to measure the immensity of each universe, as if moving from one planet to another. In the forest, Mendelssohn and Bartók, each in their own essence. " – Raphaël Merlin

PROGRAMME

• Béla Bartók, Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
• Felix Mendelssohn, Psalm 42 and Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor
• Béla Bartók, Cantata Profana

ARTISTS

• Raphaël Merlin, conductor
• Pierre Fouchenneret, violin
• Ensemble Aedes, choir
• Anne-Laure Hulin, soprano I
• stvan Horvath, tenor
• Attila Mokus, baritone