Orient-Express

The programme: RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin (arrangement by Félix Roth)MOZART Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370/368 b SCHUBERT String Trio in B-flat major, D.

471 ENESCO Aubade for string trio FARNAZ MODARRESIFAR Sang de printemps (Spring Blood), premiere for oboe and string trio, co-commissioned by Orchestre de chambre de Paris / Le hautbois chantant FAZIL SAY Kumru (arrangement for oboe and string trio) The artists: Sophie Guille des Buttes, violin Jossalyn Jensen, viola Robin de Talhouët, cello Ilyes Boufadden-Adloff, oboeA journey from Paris to Istanbul.

Like a taut thread stretching across Europe from west to east, the Orient-Express once connected Paris to Istanbul. The launch of new trains in 2027 invites us to relive this mythical route on musical rails.

The journey begins on the banks of the Seine, with Ravel; in 1932, the musician took the Orient-Express with Marguerite Long, the creator of the delicate Le Tombeau de Couperin.

The train then glides towards Munich, where Mozart's Oboe Quartet was first performed, then crosses Vienna and Bucharest before reaching the Bosphorus… Here opens the dreamed-of Orient, the final stage of the journey.

Sang de printemps, the new work by Iranian composer Farnaz Modarresifar, weaves links between Western classical music and Persian classical music.

Inspired by the freedoms offered by travel, as well as by what within her remains affected by what her home country is experiencing, she offers a contemporary vision of the link between East and West, between dream, memory, and reality.

Listening keys, a mediation will be offered at the beginning of the concert.