Special envoy to Aix-en-Provence
Solar storm warning for the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival. On March 27, François-Xavier Roth and his Orchestra of the Siècles came to defy the laws of the universe. Confession of a child of the Ages: in the twenty years since the ensemble entered our galaxy, we have never witnessed such an odyssey. Musicologist explorers have made traveling through the space-time of music their specialty. Confronting each work from even the recent past with the instrumentarium and the workmanship of its time (and place of birth). However, we never thought we would hear, one day, in the same concert, the suite from Rameau's
Indes galantes
on 18th century French instruments (or their copies) and Mahler's
Song of the Earth
on Viennese or early 20th century German work. ! Some 170 years separate the two works. Light years, on the cosmogonic scale of the orchestra. “Space” effects guaranteed: SF fans better watch out…
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