Ravel's Bolero - Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, Adrian Prabava, Can Çakmur

East and West reach out to each other in this program. We discover the leading
composer of the 20th century, Ahmed Adnan Saygun, whom Kemal Atatürk sent to study in Paris, so that he could westernize his country's musical education. He was surrounded by composers who set to music a lived or fantasized elsewhere. Saint-Saëns' Concerto "L'Égyptien", with its sparkling virtuosity, was really written under the pyramids. But Cécile Chaminade never met the Greek nymph Callirhoé, and the Spain of the Bolero is nothing more than an irresistible rush of ecstasy.