Vive la France, French Classics

You might say the French are good at everything from cheese to football. Yet the myriad hues and scents of their music do not always reach us in their entirety. This concert is a celebration of French music and, although even the Danubia Orchestra is unable to serve up every delicacy in the course of a single evening, the audience will be able to take the biggest bite possible from this tantalising baguette. The chef for the evening, or rather its maître de maison and conductor, is Máté Hámori.

Program and cast

Conductor:

Máté Hámori

Featuring:

Danubia Orchestra

Program

Rameau:

Les sauvages

Ravel:

Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) – 5. Lent et grave (The Fairy Garden)

Berlioz:

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 – II. A Ball

Debussy:

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86

Saint-Saëns:

Symphony No. 3 in C minor (‘Organ’), Op. 78 – Scherzo

interval

Dukas:

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – symphonic scherzo

Fauré:

Pavane, Op. 50

Bizet:

L’Arlésienne – Suite No. 1, IV. Carillon

Rezső Ott:

Chanson à trois – medley of French chansons and couplets