Festival de Granada / Klaus Makela / Jean-Baptiste Doulcet by Stravinsky, Debussy, Mozart, Du (2024/2024), Chef d'orchestre Klaus Mäkelä, Palacio de Carlos V, Grenade, Espagne

The second concert of the Paris Orchestra under Mäkelä's baton brings three works linked to the French capital city. Petruchka was the second ballet that Stravinsky premiered in the city, after The Firebird. It was in 1911 and, as it had happened with the former, it was performed within the season of Diáguilev's Ballets Russes, which then were one of the greatest artistic attractions of the Parisian spring. For the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun we must go back to 1894, when Debussy presented this absolutely groundbreaking work, so marking the real entrance of his music into modernity –for many, it is indeed the piece that inaugurated the music of the 20th century. Finally, the concert will finish with the Symphony that Mozart wrote in 1778 for the Spiritual Concert of Paris during an unfortunate trip, since his mother, who was accompanying him, died in this visit to Paris just fifteen days after the public presentation of the work on June 18.