2. Studio Concert / Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est

Claude Debussy
"Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire"

Benjamin Britten
"Les illuminations", song cycle for high voice and orchestra op. 18
"Quatre chansons françaises" for high voice and orchestra

Edward Elgar
"Enigma Variations" op. 36

Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est
Harry Ogg, conductor
Cyrille Dubois, tenor
Roland Kunz, moderator

This programme celebrates transformation. In his "Marche écossaise", Debussy clothes a simple Scottish melody in shimmering colours and transforms it into a small orchestral poem. Britten discovers the French language in two ways: first at age 14 in the elegant "Quatre chansons françaises", later in the feverish, luminous soundscapes of "Les Illuminations". Finally, Elgar presents a musical parlour game: the "Enigma Variations" sketch the composer's friends in equally tender and humorous sound portraits. Yet behind it all lies a great mystery - a mysterious theme that never truly sounds.

Live broadcast on SR kultur radio

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