apocalypsis

A program that honors the masterpieces of great French artists, starting with the sublime as well as formidable Piano Concerto No. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the young Louis Schwizgebel. Musical Impressionism, a typically French aesthetic, is not to be outdone with Reynaldo Hahn's La Nuit d'amore bergamasque, music of the exquisite and the marvelous, and Images, Ibéria by Claude Debussy, a veritable musical postcard from Spain.

With the creation for choir and orchestra Apocalypsis, Édith Canat de Chizy brilliantly demonstrates the vitality of the current French school: the composer uses texts by Hildegarde von Bingen, Nostradamus or even the Apocalypse according to Saint-Jean to illustrate his musical vision of a mystical revelation.