| vendredi 12 février 2027 | 19:00 |
| Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) | Le Carnaval des animaux | |
| Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) | Concerto pour piano en sol | |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) | Symphonie no. 7 en la majeur, Op.92 |
| Martha Argerich | Piano |
| Annie Dutoit | Récitant |
| Marios Papadopoulos | Direction |
| Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra |
To 21st-century ears, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 can feel like the most modern and daring of them all. Anticipating musical developments a hundred years away, it was the first symphonic work to build a journey primarily from rhythmic rather than melodic blocks. No work of the period can match the wild dances, insistent rhythmic propulsion and infectious joy of Beethoven’s Seventh – but one piece from the following century that certainly can, is Ravel’s jazz-infused piano concerto of 120 years later. The legendary Martha Argerich is the soloist in Ravel’s electrifyingly slick and slinky piano concerto after Annie Dutoit-Argerich narrates the greatest musical menagerie of them all, Saint-Saëns’s beastly and enchanting Carnival of the Animals.
