Je cherche les notes qui s’aiment (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

As part of the Sunday Morning Concerts.

"We are in the inconceivable, but with dazzling landmarks." René Char. Conceived as an alternative to an evening or matinee concert outing, never scheduled before 3 p.m., the Sunday Morning Concerts offer an off-the-beaten-track format for the whole family. Rooted in the "spirit of the Châtelet", with a programme that is at once demanding, eclectic and popular, these events are built around a simple and accessible format: one hour of music, without an interval, punctuated by an introduction and a reading in which poetry, literature and philosophy alternate. Placed under the patronage of a figure from the world of art or letters, the Sunday Morning Concerts are designed as an original musical moment, where renowned performers take part in a dialogue between the arts and society, for an approach to the concert that is at once sensitive, informed and enlightened.

For this second edition at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the programme is built around four appointments, ranging from the chamber music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to the solo cello works of Johann Sebastian Bach, passing through a tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven and a look at the solo piano repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This programme places the emphasis on contemplation and reflection, with an accessible approach for everyone. Underlying it all, as the extract from the letter written by the poet and Resistance member René Char to his friend Francis Curel during the Second World War suggests, the Sunday Morning Concerts are first and foremost an invitation to ecstasy, within the handsome setting of the Grande Salle of the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Programme

Introduction and reading of poems by Fanny Ardant

Violin Raphaëlle Moreau

Viola Lyda Chen Argerich

Cello Astrig Siranossian

Piano Shani Diluka

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502

Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478