Raphaël Pichon dirigiert Rameau und Beethoven

In the organizer's words:

In Beethoven's entire symphonic cosmos, there is no other movement that pushes forward so energetically, so rhythmically, so dance-like as the final movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. The other movements of the "Seventh" are also dominated by dance, even the solemn second movement, which is reminiscent of a pavane, a slow shouting dance. The emphasis on rhythm led Richard Wagner to conclude that the "Seventh" was the "apotheosis of dance". Raphaël Pichon takes up Wagner's description with his "imaginary orchestral suite". In the French opera of the high baroque period, a variety of dance numbers, also known as "divertissements", were a must. Pichon, who made Mozart's Requiem dance in a sensational staged production at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2019, brings together the dance movements from Jean-Philippe Rameau's operas, which are rarely heard in the concert hall, to create a concert hall rarity.

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
"L'Apothéose de la Danse", Suite d'orchestre imaginaire (compiled by Raphaël Pichon)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 7

Conductor RAPHAëL PICHON