Victor Jacob conducts Beethoven Symphony No.7 with Orchestra de Picardie
Victor Jacob conducts Beethoven’s 7th Symphony and Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber’s FABLES to celebrate to 400th BIRTHDAY
OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Saturday 9th October | 5pm
The Seventh Symphony of Beethoven passed relatively unnoticed when it was created in Vienna on December 8, 1813. It was indeed a charity concert to benefit wounded soldiers in the recent battle of Hanau. And if the composer was nevertheless a great success with the patriotic public, it was with the spectacular and anecdotal Battle of Vittoria, with fanfares and real cannon shots ...
For the 400th anniversary of La Fontaine, it will be up to the composer Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber to confront the universe of the great fabulist.
Conceived as a suite of four fables (among the most famous) for baritone and orchestra, the work will appeal to everyone's collective and childish memory:
"The fables are most often attached to our memories of elementary school, where we discover and learn the Fables. This childish part of the text - linked in particular to the incarnation of men by animals but also to the humor and conciseness of the texts - enters particularly in resonance with my work and will be deployed with purely musical means in the voice as in the orchestra: vivacity, contrasts, linguistic, rhythmic and sonorous comicalities " (Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber)