Berliner Philharmoniker
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The programme features a work of imagination, charm and humour: the opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges written by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette and which is staged in the Berlin Philharmonie by director David Kneuss. In fantastic, magical images, the plot traces the development of a child, from his angry tantrums which damage his surroundings and consequently also himself, to a boy who is compassionate and self-aware. The composer set this story to music in the manner of an “American operetta” (Ravel). Like in a revue, he employs a wide range of musical styles one after another, from the neo-Baroque bicinium and bel canto arias to ragtime and music hall. Moreover, there is Ravel’s subtle, multifaceted orchestration which makes L'Enfant et les sortilèges one of his most impressive and most personal works. The conductor is Mikko Franck, who steps in for Seiji Ozawa.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A major, K. 219
Noah Bendix-Balgley: violin
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra in A minor, op. 28
Noah Bendix-Balgley: violin
Maurice Ravel
L’Enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Spells)
Emily Fons
mezzo-soprano, Sir Paul Gay bass
baritone, Yvonne Naef
contralto, Kiera Duffy
soprano, Marie Lenormand
mezzo-soprano, Mathias Vidal
tenor, Elliot Madore
baritone, Kanae Fujitani
soprano, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Gijs Leenaars
chorus master, Kinderchor der Komischen Oper Berlin, Dagmar Fiebach
chorus master
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