Place aux solistes

Dialogues de timbres

For this new concert Place aux solistes, the musicians of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Nancy -Lorraine chart a course where strings and winds respond to one another, take turns, and alternately step back and take centre stage. Moving from one mood to another, the programme showcases the full richness of an orchestra capable of shifting from the most intimate intimacy to concertante eloquence. The strings open and traverse this path, from the sombre tenderness of Grieg’s Two Elegiac Melodies to the suspended line of Barber’s famous Adagio, before the livelier, more agile momentum of Roussel’s Sinfonietta. Opposite them, the woodwinds take centre stage in works that favour virtuoso showpiece than the art of dialogue and colour. Strauss brings together the clarinet and bassoon in a witty double concertino, whilst Cherubini entrusts the horn with a line that is both noble and melodious. In his Quiet City, Copland draws from the trumpet and English horn a nocturnal meditation of rare intensity, reflecting an evening dedicated to listening, timbre and musical conversation.

Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine Orchestra

Clarinet
Noémie Lapierre

Bassoon
Charles Comerford

Horn
Emilien Drouin

English horn
Florine Hardouin

Trumpet
Aurore Prieur