Nielsen, Grieg

Place des Arts

Duration 1h50, intermission included The vital impulse, the Scandinavian soul and the panache of Lise de la Salle resound in the foaming waters of this program, illuminated by the video projections of Claudia Fuggetti. The Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg is an epic crossing of the fjords of Norway, a powerful evocation of the yawning chasms that nature carves in us. To fill them, the breath of the so-called 'Inextinguishable' Symphony by Carl Nielsen gives voice to the 'most primitive sources of the vital flow', according to the words of its author. The creative power is honored da…