Disappeared on September 5, Lars Vogt leaves in disarray his many musician friends and all the music lovers who had the chance to hear and meet him. The Paris Chamber Orchestra, to pay tribute to the man who became its musical director in July 2020, is dedicating a concert to him bringing together several of his close friends. Conducted by Daniel Harding, the orchestra offers a program of orchestral pieces, concertos and lieder: works and composers that Lars Vogt cherished, and around which we will celebrate his memory. After Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music , jewels of tenderness and romanticism by Mahler, Dvořák and Schubert will resonate. Some excerpts from the Along the Field cycleby Vaughan Williams, for voice and violin, will bring colors from across the Channel. We will also hear two movements from Schumann's Second Symphony , of which Lars Vogt gave a luminous interpretation last season, and the Adagio from the First Piano Concerto by Brahms, one of the composers he loved the most. It is in the work of the Hamburg musician that Lars Vogt had found a form of consolation in recent months: "I realized how incredibly comforting Brahms can be", he confided in an interview in May 2021.
