Orchestre de Paris, Klaus Makela

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A programme designed as a captivating play of light and shadow, in which Schönberg’s night journey—exploring the bounds of passion—is a prelude to Mahler’s ardent fresco, bathed in chiaroscuro, on the ideal life.

Originally written as a string sextet, Transfigured Night is the work of 25-year-old Schönberg, his post-romanticism still struggling with the great shadows of Brahms and Wagner. Echoes of Tristan run through this opus based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, the tale of a nocturnal odyssey in which a woman confesses to her lover that she is expecting another man’s child.

After this volatile and fitful night, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 seems at first more luminous, with its pastoral ambiance and its meditation on childhood as a state of bliss and Paradise Lost, culminating in the sumptuous Lied of the fourth movement, Das himmlische Leben, ‘heavenly life’. But even when enlivened by dance or elevated by mysticism, Mahler’s light is always tinged with anguish, irony and the grotesque. With a violin tuned a step too high in the second movement, here is death, with its sarcastic gait, waltzing into the ball of insouciance.

Program and cast

Arnold Schönberg - Transfigured Night

- INTERMISSION -

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4

 

DISTRIBUTION

Paris Orchestra

Klaus Mäkelä, conducting

Christiane Karg, soprano

Philharmonie de Paris

Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie


The Grande salle Pierre Boulez (Symphonic Hall) boasts innovations in architecture, stage design and acoustical engineering. Thanks to a modular design, its capacity increases from 2400 people in the symphonic configuration to 3600 when the parterre is converted into a standing room area.


All five levels of the Grande salle Pierre Boulez are accessed via the entrance on Level 3 of Philharmonie, which can be reached via stairways, escalators and two lifts, with direct access from the Porte de Pantin plaza and the Philharmonie parking facility.


From the entrance, stairways and lifts inside the hall take visitors to the various levels.


The Grande Salle Pierre Boulez has thirty designated seats for people with reduced mobility.

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