Lunchtime Concert

Tue 17 November 2020 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Georges Bizet, Chants du Rhin
Gabriel Fauré, Ballade pour piano en fa dièse majeur, op. 19
Franz Liszt, Vallée d’Obermann, LW A159, no 6
Olivier Messiaen, Catalogue d’oiseaux, extraits

Nathanaël Gouin, piano

Evening Concert

Thu 26 November 2020 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Throughout the 20th century, the questioning of the humanity of animals and… the animality of men increased. The bestiaries of Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud and Zavaro are mirrors held up to the damage we inflict on nature. The great baritone Stéphane Degout brings this small world together on the Ark.

Stéphane Degout, baryton
Ensemble Les Apaches
Julien Masmondet, direction

Darius Milhaud : La Création du monde, op. 81
Pascal Zavaro : Le Bestiaire disparu
Francis Poulenc : Le Bestiaire, FP 15a
Maurice Ravel : Histoires naturelles, O 50
Pascal Zavaro : Bestiaire chimérique

Contemporary Music

Sat 28 November 2020 – 20h
Sun 29 November 2020 – 16h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Passionate about ornithology, Christophe Chassol is a rare bird in French pop. A genuine composer/observer, he takes inspiration from the sounds of the world around him for musical motifs on which he composes an original, unclassifiable soundtrack, where pop, jazz and classical music come together. He calls this unusual method Ultrascore. Having released four albums acclaimed by public and critics alike (Nola chérie, Indiamore, Big Sun and Ludi), Christophe Chassol is today a key figure in the contemporary music scene. For the exhibition The Origins of the World,pop artist Chassol is offering two special performances in which, drawing on his archives and works, he unveils on stage a selection of musical compositions and documentary works resulting from his observation of birds and nature.

Evening Concert

Thu 3 December 2020 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Saint-Saëns’ most famous work has delighted young and old for well over a century. However, the composer had forbidden it to be played during his lifetime! Did he fear that this musical joke, much more profound than it appears, would suddenly make his symphonies and operas sound pompous?

The Amazing Keystone Big Band
Samuel Labarthe, récitant

Camille Saint-Saëns, Le Carnaval des animaux, R 125

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 8 December 2020 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Enrique Granados, Danse espagnole, op. 37 nos 2 et 3
Béla Bartók, Danse populaire roumaine no 3, Sz 56
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending 
Fritz Kreisler, Schön Rosmarin
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne en do dièse mineur no 20, op. posthume, CT 127
Franz Schubert-Franz Liszt, Ständchen, LW A42, no 9
Camille Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre, op. 40
Igor Stravinsky, L’Oiseau de feu : berceuse 
Antonín Dvořák, Klid, op. 68, no 5
Piotr Illich Tchaïkovski, Le Lac des cygnes : scène finale, op. 20

Geneviève Laurenceau, violon
Lidija Bizjak, piano
Les Chanteurs d’Oiseaux

Contemporary Music

Thu 7 January 2021 - 20h
Fri 8 January 2021 - 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

For the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition, Yan Wagner and Uele Lamore offer you a musical journey on each side of the Channel to encounter the best of Franco-British pop. The Musée d'Orsay puts England and pop music in the spotlight, bringing out the powerful and sometimes paradoxical link that has united the United Kingdom and France up to the present day.

From Serge Gainsbourg and his legendary Je t'aime… moi non plus, recorded with Jane Birkin in London in 1969 and banned by the BBC, to David Bowie, whose albums Pin Ups (1973) and Low (1977) were recorded at the Château d'Hérouville (Val d'Oise), the singer, composer and director Yan Wagner has worked with the conductor and arranger Uele Lamore to present, on stage with a quartet, synthetic and acoustic, intimate and timeless versions of these songs that have become classics of the popular repertoire.

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 19 January 2021 - 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Joseph Haydn, La Création, pour quatuor à cordes, Hob XXI 2

Fabio Biondi, violon
Europa Galante

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 9 February 2021 - 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Henri Duparc, La Vie antérieure ; L’Invitation au voyage
Benjamin Godard, L’Invitation au voyage, op. 114 
Samuel Barber, Three Songs, op. 45 
Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser : O du mein holder Abenstern, WWV 70
Franz Liszt, Die drei Zigeuner, S 320
Robert Schumann, Liederkreis, op. 24

Michael Rakotoarivony, baryton
Teodora Oprisor, piano

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 16 March 2021 - 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Ernest Chausson, L’Albatros
Henri Duparc, L’Invitation au voyage ; La Vie antérieure
Gabriel Fauré, Hymne, op. 7, no 2 ; La Bonne Chanson, op. 61 
Déodat de Séverac, Les Hiboux
Maurice Ravel, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, FL 135, CD 135
Ernest Chausson, Deux poèmes de Verlaine, op. 34

Victoire Bunel, mezzo-soprano
Gaspard Dehaene, piano

Evening Concert

Thu 18 March 2021 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Last season, Christoph Prégardien, heir to the heroes of the German lied such as Häfliger or Schreier, presented us with Winter Journey, a Schubertian classic. He returns to us with these two major cycles by Schumann, in which his skilful diction and musical subtlety will amaze us once again.

Christoph Prégardien, ténor
Julius Drake, piano

Robert Schumann, Liederkreis, op. 39 ; Dichterliebe, op. 48

Concert in the central nave

Sat 27 March 2021 – 20h30

Nave of the Musée d’Orsay

An honoured guest for the great symphonic concerts in the Nave, the Orchestre de Paris presents some of Ravel’s most famous works (including the unmissable Bolero) together with the fascinating orchestration he produced for Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Maurice Ravel, Alborada del gracioso, O 43, no 4 ; Boléro, O 81
Modeste Moussorgski, Les Tableaux d’une exposition, orchestration de Maurice Ravel

L’Orchestre de Paris et Pablo Heras-Casado dans la nef
Orchestre de Paris
Pablo Heras-Casado, direction

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 6 April 2021 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit, O 55 
Francesco Tristano, Hello ; Circle Songs ; Tokyo Stories
Tōru Takemitsu, For Away

Francesco Tristano, piano

Evening Concert

Thu 8 April 2021 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

The great Swedish mezzo-soprano does us the immense honour of taking the stage in the auditorium for a tribute to Baudelaire. From Duparc to Léo Ferré, here she is at home with the verses and repertoires that she loves so much and performs so brilliantly.

Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Lawrence Power, alto
Fabian Frederiksson, guitare électrique

Oeuvres de Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Charles Loeffler, Léo Ferré.

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 27 April 2021 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Henri Duparc, L’Invitation au voyage
Franz Schubert, Ganymed, D 544 ; Atys, D 585
Hugo Wolf, Anakreons Grab ; An eine Äolsharfe ; Die Geister am Mummelsee
Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, FL 135 ; Fantoches, FL 26
Reynaldo Hahn, Néère
Franz Liszt, Die Loreley, S 273 1
Richard Strauss, Waldesfahrt, op. 69, no 4

Elena Harsányi, soprano
Toni Ming Geiger, piano

Evening Concert

Thu 6 May 2021 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

We welcome Stéphanie d'Oustrac into the prestigious family of the Orsay and Royaumont masters of lied and melody! A hugely talented lyric actress, celebrated on stages throughout the world, this mezzo-soprano cultivates this most intimate of art forms with love. She excels here in Ravel’s taunting sensuality.

Stéphanie d’Oustrac, mezzo-soprano
Pascal Jourdan, piano
Musiciens de l’Orchestre de Paris

Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade, O 41 ; Chansons madécasses, O 78 ; Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, O 64 ; Introduction et allegro, O 46 ; Menuet antique, O 7 ; Deux épigrammes de Clément Marot 
Ernest Chausson, La Chanson perpetuelle, op. posth 37
Henri Duparc, L’Invitation au voyage

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 18 May 2021 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Maurice Ravel, Sonate pour violon et piano dite « posthume », O 12, no 1 ; Pavane pour une infante défunte, O 19 transcrit pour violoncelle et piano par Maurice Maréchal ; La Valse pour piano, O 72 ; Tzigane, O 76 transcrit pour violoncelle et piano par Laszlo Varga ; Deux épigrammes de Clément Marot

Alexander Ramm, violoncelle
Dmitry Masleev, piano

Evening Concert

Thu 27 May 2021 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Take Jazz Seriously. This is how Ravel put it when he addressed the American composers.
The great Michel Portal could take this motto as his own. In order to revisit Maurice Ravel, he has invited the young guard of jazz, including the very promising Théo Ceccaldi on violin and the amazing Vincent Peirani on accordion, for a concert where classical pieces will merge with transcriptions and improvisations by the great master of the clarinet.

Michel Portal, clarinette
Théo Ceccaldi, violon
Vincent Peirani, accordéon

Oeuvres de Ravel, Stravinsky, Gershwin. Improvisations et arrangements de Michel Portal.

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 1 June 2021 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Claude Debussy, Trois ballades de François Villon, FL 126
Reynaldo Hahn, Chansons grises 
Robert Schumann, 6 Gedichte aus dem « Liederbuch eines Malers », op. 36 
Franz Schubert, Schwanengesang, D 744

Fabian Langguth, baryton
Camille Lemonnier, piano

Lunchtime Concert

Tue 8 June 2021 – 12h30

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Maurice Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole, O 54 transcrit pour trio avec piano par Boris de Larochelambert ; Trio pour piano et cordes en la mineur, O 67 
Joaquín Turina, Trio pour piano et cordes en si mineur, op. 76, no 2