Concert - Lumières secrètes

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Musical Director: Chloé Van Soeterstède
Viola: David Gaillard

Fanny Mendelssohn, Overture in C major
Rebecca Clarke, Sonata for viola and piano (Orchestration Ruth Lomon)
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F major

Composed around 1830, the Overture in C major by Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) is a rare orchestral work in a catalog dominated by piano and chamber music. Long overshadowed by the figure of her brother Felix, Fanny asserts a rigorous energy and sense of drama in this work, testifying to her mastery of symphonic writing.

Composed in 1919, the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) is one of the highlights of the viola repertoire. A work of early maturity, it blends the intensity of post-Romantic language with impressionistic harmonies.

In the third part, the Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) expresses, in a full breath between vital impetus and renunciation, four movements developed around cyclical motifs, alternately heroic or elegiac, with a mysteriously soothed, almost suspended finale.

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