Vienne-Paris with the Philharmonie de Paris
04/12/2018 - Classic Agenda - Irène Mejia Buttin
Saturday 24thNovember at the Cité de la Musique concert venue, the programme “Ravel – Debussy – Mahler,” proposed a return journey from Paris to Vienna alongside the Nouvelle-Aquitaine chamber orchestra. French and Austrian composers mingled and shared with delight the first hours of the 20thcentury.
In a few words, the conductor Jean-François Heisser situates the initiative behind this programme. In the context of his Society for Private Musical Performances founded in 1918, Schoenberg advocated the discovery of the contemporary repertoire by proposing an innovative approach whereby