Nielsen, Grieg

Place des Arts

Duration 1h50, intermission included The vital impulse, the Scandinavian soul and the panache of Lise de la Salle rumble in the bubbling waters of this program, illuminated by video projections from Claudia Fuggetti. The Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg is an epic crossing through the fjords of Norway, a powerful evocation of the abyssal chasms that nature digs within us. To fill them, the breath of the so-called "Inextinguishable" Symphony by Carl Nielsen gives the ear the "most primitive sources of the vital flow", in the words of its author. The creative power is highlighted da…