Orchestre de Paris / Ariane Matiakh by Koechlin, C., Chopin, Britten, Debussy, De (2023/2023), Director musical Ariane Matiakh, Cité de la musique, Paris, France

Thanks to a magnetic cosmic sketch or shimmering marine paintings, it is to the mysteries of the "musical landscape" that this program initiates us, completed, under the fingers of Lise de la Salle, by the bewitching Concerto n° 2 of Chopin. Fascinated from his youth by astronomy, Koechlin offers with Towards the starry vault a magnetic piece, in the form of a nocturne for orchestra. The mystery of its seduction is shared by Debussy's orchestral score, La Mer , an incomparable and sensual prismatic spraying of sound material, for which the notion of musical "impressionism" was forged. Taken from his opera Peter Grimes , Britten's marine interludes go further with the evocation of the changing lights of the sea, from gray dawn to shimmering moonlight, to the raging of the swell. Both epic and belcantist, Chopin's Concerto No. 2 finally imposes all its charm: poetic culmination of the work, the Larghetto makes heard its ductile and sustained cantilena, characteristic of the art of the one Berlioz, taking it for a leprechaun or an elf, called "the pianist's Trilby".