Pascal Sigrist, Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu, Alexander Gurning, Eugène Galand

This concert is all about France seen through American eyes and vice versa.

In An American in Paris, New Yorker George Gershwin pulls out all the stops to evoke the frenetic energy of the French capital. In Amériques, the young Edgar Varèse expresses how much the ‘the States’ impressed him. His piece is an overwhelming orgy of sound, like an urban Le sacre du printemps. Sandwiched between these two substantial courses, Morton Feldman searches for the beauty in stillness, and Maurice Ravel will, in his inimitable fashion, hurl himself into an all-destroying waltz.