Concert Éblouissant - Orchestre Pasdeloup

Symphonic concert by the Orchestre Pasdeloup, on Saturday 6 February 2027 at 3 PM at the Philharmonie de Paris.

The sonic waves of Radiant Circles, the youthful effervescence and powerful lyricism of Rachmaninoff, one of the most beloved symphonies in the romantic repertoire: a programme of a thousand reflections.

Radiant Circles, by composer Augusta Read Thomas, begins in a suspended and crystalline atmosphere, the music transforming into swirling spirals, to culminate in an energetic fanfare.

The work of a musician barely 18 years old, still a student at the Conservatoire, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 – his Opus 1 – remains one of his most endearing scores. It culminates in the monumental soloist's cadenza of its first movement.

The premiere in 1883 of Symphony No. 3 was the occasion for one of Brahms's greatest triumphs: "the tributes to the composer reached a degree of enthusiasm almost never before equalled in Vienna," wrote his biographer Max Kalbeck.

Clara Schumann was a fervent admirer: "What a work, what poetry! "