AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
In the new ‘Lionel Bringuier’ series, the OPRL's musical director, joined by the outstanding pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, invites you on a musical journey across continents and cultures. Prokofiev wrote his Fourth Symphony in 1930 for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He then revised it 17 years later in the Soviet Union, andwho thus transformed it into completed an expressionist and frenetic work, with a martial finale. Saint-Saëns’s “Egyptian” Piano Concerto, completed in Cairo in 1896, succumbs to the fashion for Orientalism, notably with the reprise of a Nubian song collected by the composer during a cruise on the Nile. Finally, An American in Paris, with its jazzy rhythms and urban energy, concludes this journey with Gershwin's vibrant tribute to the French capital.
Programme
PROKOFIEV, Symphony No. 4 (revised version of 1947)
SAINT-SAËNS, Piano Concerto No. 5 “The Egyptian”
GERSHWIN, An American in Paris
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