Lunchtime concerts

Nineteen lunchtime concerts showcase young musicians. While retaining the three areas of French chanson, new piano talents and the fruitful exchange with the BBC series New Generation Artists, the programme is enriched by themes prefiguring the bicentenary in 2011 of the birth of Franz Liszt.
The aim of this cycle, which launches the season, is to present a view of the history of music as seen through his transcriptions. From Auber to Zichy, from Bach to Wagner, Liszt's enormous body of transcription includes at least one composer for every letter of the alphabet, and spans a period from the Baroque masters to his contemporaries. Over three seasons, this series will offer an opportunity to experience a tiny part of this history of music according to Franz Liszt.

Meta4 Quartet
Belà Bartók
String quartet no. 1, op. 7, Sz. 40
Maurice Ravel
String quartet, in F major

Concert recorded by France Musique

Jennifer Pike, violin
Martin Roscoe, piano
Fritz Kreisler
Praeludium & Allegro
Robert Schumann
Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano in A minor, op. 105
Jeremy Pike
Praesagium
Antonin Dvorák
Four Romantic Pieces, op. 75
Maurice Ravel
Tzigane

Dominique Plancade, piano
Hector Berlioz / Franz Liszt
Symphonie fantastique

Shani Diluka, piano
Franz Schubert
Impromptus op. 142, D. 935, no. 2 and no. 4
Hungarian Melody in B minor, D. 817
Sonata no. 15 in A major, op. posth. 120, D. 664
Franz Schubert / Franz Liszt
Ständchen, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Auf dem Wasser zu singen

Florence Cioccolani, piano
Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt
The Death of Isolde, S. 447
Giuseppe Verdi / Franz Liszt
Miserere from Il Trovatore, concert paraphrase, S. 433
Claude Debussy
Préludes (extracts)
Martin Matalon
Dos formas del tiempo

In collaboration with Yamaha

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Franz Liszt
Reminiscences of Don Giovanni, S. 418
Giuseppe Verdi / Franz Liszt
Rigoletto, concert paraphrase, S. 434
Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt
Overture from Tannhäuser, S. 442

In collaboration with Yamaha

Romain Leleu, trumpet
Julien Le Pape, piano
Alexander Arutiunian
Scherzo from Concert
Georges Enesco
Legend, for trumpet and piano
Serge Rachmaninov
Elegia, op. 3 no. 1; adaptation for trumpet and piano
Carl Höhne
Slavonic Fantasy, for trumpet and piano
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Melody (extract from Orpheus and Eurydice), arranged for bugle and piano
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne, op. 62 no. 1, adaptation for trumpet and piano
Philippe Hersant
Folk Tunes for solo trumpet
Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve, transcribed for trumpet and piano

In collaboration with Yamaha

Alexandre Souillard, soprano and alto "Adolphe SAX" saxophones, "Prize-winner in the Avant-scènes competition 2009"
Matthieu Acar, piano
Carmen Lefrançois, alto saxophone

Jerôme Savari
Fantaisie sur des motifs du Freischutz, for alto saxophone and piano
Jules Demersseman
Fantaisie sur un thème original, for alto saxophone and piano
Jean-Baptiste Singelée
Grand Duo Concertant op.55, 2nd and 3rd movements, for soprano and alto saxophones and piano. II. Andante, III. Allegretto
Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet (extract), for solo saxophone
Adapted for alto saxophone and piano by Alexandre Souillart.

The winners will also perform with the orchestra on Saturday 6 March at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and again, in a concert of chamber music at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Friday 22 January and Friday 16 April 2010.

In collaboration with the Paris National Conservatory for Music and Dance

Matteo Cesari, flute, "Prize-winner in the Avant-scènes competition 2009"
Misaki Baba, piano

Charles-Marie Widor
Suite opus 34 no. 1
Philippe Gaubert
Sonata for flute and piano no.2
Gabriel Fauré
Sonata in A major opus 13 (Transcription for violin and piano)
Carl Heinrich Reinecke
Sonata for flute and piano in E minor "Ondine", op.167

The winners will also perform with the orchestra on Saturday 6 March at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and again, in a concert of chamber music at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Friday 22 January and Friday 16 April 2010.

En collaboration avec le Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris

Andreas Brantelid, cello
Bengt Forsberg, piano
Serge Prokofiev
Sonata for cello and piano in C major, op. 119
Manuel De Falla
Seven Popular Spanish Songs
Claude Debussy
Sonata for cello and piano in D minor

Concert recorded by France Musique

Iddo Bar-Shaï, piano
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in F sharp minor, op. 48 no. 2
Mazurkas (selection)
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, op. 61
Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35

Tin Alley Quartet
Franz Schubert
Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Percy Grainger
Arrival Platform Humlet
Beautiful Fresh Flower Music
Molly on the Shore
Robert Meale
Cantilena Pacifica
Felix Mendelssohn
String quartet in F Minor, op. 80

Françoise Masset, mezzo-soprano
François-René Duchâble, piano
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
François Lazarevitch, cornemuses from central France, cabrette, chabrette (regional bagpipes), musical director
Anne-Lise Foy, hurdy-gurdy
Basile Brémaud, violin and Béchonnet musette
La Veillée imaginaire
Traditional songs from central France, the Auvergne and the Limousin, arranged by composers including Chopin, Viardot, Liszt, Canteloube, Chabrier and Emmanuel

Members of the Orchestre de Paris
Bohuslav Martinu
Serenade for violin, viola, cello and two clarinets, H. 334
Nonet for violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn, H. 374, in F major
Leos Janácek
Mládi, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and French horn
Erwin Schulhoff
Bass Nightingale, three pieces for contrabassoon

In partnership with the Orchestre de Paris and the Lunchtime Concerts from the Sorbonne

Maciej Pikulski, piano
Frédéric Chopin
Valse op. 64 no. 1 in D flat major
Valse op. 64 no. 2 in C sharp minor
Nocturne in D flat major op. 27 no. 2
Ballade no. 4 in F minor op.52
Franz Liszt
Légende de Saint-François de Paule marchant sur les flots, S. 175
Fantasia and fugue on the theme B-A-C-H, S529
Serge Rachmaninov
Prelude op. 3 no. 2 in C sharp minor
Prelude op. 23 no. 7 in C minor "Allegro"
Prelude op. 23 no. 5 in G minor "Alla marcia"

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, baritone
Semjon Skigin, piano
Franz Schubert
Winter Journey (Winterreise)

Members of the Orchestre de Paris
Laurent Wagschal, piano
Camille Saint-Saëns
Cavatina for trombone and piano, op. 144 in D flat major
Sonata for oboe and piano, op. 166 in D major
Sonata for clarinet and piano, op. 167 in E flat major
Sonata for bassoon and piano, op. 168 in G major
A Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano, op. 79

In partnership with the Orchestre de Paris and the Lunchtime Concerts from the Sorbonne

Members of the Orchestre de Paris
Edouard Lalo
String quartet, op. 45 in E flat major
Gabriel Fauré
String quartet, op. 121 in E minor

In partnership with the Orchestre de Paris and the Lunchtime Concerts from the Sorbonne

Christian Rivet, guitar
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Five Preludes for modern guitar
Léo Brouwer
Desde que El Alba Quiso Ser Alba, Toda Eres Madre
Canticum
Sonata for solo guitar
Elogio de La Danza