Actress Brigitte Fossey lends her voice to the words of Novalis, Rimbaud, Hugo, Musset, Baudelaire, Valéry and Lamartine. At the piano, Fanny Azzuro echoes the dark light of night through Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin and Brahms.
CONCERT-READING
La Nuit
When the day fades, the night opens up an intimate space where dreams, confidences and flights of
the soul mingle. This concert-reading invites you on a sensitive and poetic journey, carried by the great pages of the
Romantic repertoire and the timeless voices of literature.
At the piano, Fanny Azzuro echoes the chiaroscuro of night through Chopin's Nocturnes and Funeral Sonata, the mysterious impulses of Schumann, the delicacy of Clara Schumann, the bewitching harmonies of Scriabin and the introspective depth of Brahms.
Brigitte Fossey lends her voice to the words of Novalis, Rimbaud, Hugo, Musset, Baudelaire, Valéry and Lamartine. Their poems, by turns contemplative, exalted or melancholy, illuminate the night in a thousand nuances. From reverie to passion, from silence to infinity, music and poetry converse in the same breath, revealing the night as a land of emotions, mystery and beauty.
Night is one of the strongest themes of Romanticism. This fascination with the night
is linked to our love of mystery and dreams. At night, the unreal visions that impose themselves on us make us forget all the evils of the day. Musset's series of Nuits attests to this.
Night can also be associated with a symbol of the decline of human life. In this case,
dusk represents the last gasps of existence. This is what Victor Hugo describes in
Soleils couchants. It is also this nostalgic beauty that Baudelaire makes us feel in his
poem Recueillement. Many 19th-century composers were interested in this theme of night,
notably Schumann and his Nachtstücke (nocturnal tales), Chopin and his funeral sonata and his
nocturnes, so melancholy, Clara Schumann and her Soirées musicales. A sparkling, touching nocturnal world
With:
Fanny Azzuro, piano
Brigitte Fossey, narrator
Musical programme:
Chopin - Nocturnes Op. 9 Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata No. 2 "Funèbre"
Schumann - Nachtstücke Op. 23
Clara Schumann - Soirées musicales Op. 6
Scriabin - Nocturnes Op. 9
Brahms - Klavierstücke Op. 118
Texts:
Novalis - Hymns to the night
Rimbaud - Sensation, Roman, Ma Bohème
Hugo - L'inspiration
Musset - Ballade à la lune, La Nuit de Mai
Baudelaire - Harmonie du soir
Valéry - Les Pas
Lamartine - Le Lac
