Seong-Jin Cho | piano Orchestre National De France Cristian Măcelaru | conductor
Programme
Lili Boulanger, D'un matin de printemps Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto No. 5 Claude Debussy, La Mer Maurice Ravel, Bolero
You don't need to see what you're setting to music. While Saint-Saëns was in Luxor at the time of his Fifth Piano Concerto, aptly named "l'Égyptien", Claude Debussy lingered in Burgundy when he sketched out La Mer: the filter of memories is better than everyday reality, especially to erect a sound poem of this scope, an abstract symphony in three movements that goes so far as to capture the elusive.
