On the program: ( 1h35 with intermission) From 14 to 23 May 2025 - 20h in Lille metropolis — FARRENC Symphony n°3
DESSNER Aheym (Homeward)
MOZART Symphony 40
Bar Avni, Conductor Orchestre National de Lille
Three different musical worlds are honored by the orchestra, led by Bar Avni, winner of the 3rd edition of the La Maestra competition. First of all, a tribute to the French composer Louise Farrenc, whose Symphony No. 3 in G minor was acclaimed by critics and the Parisian public from its premiere in 1849. Farrenc handles it with great expressiveness and restraint, where the colors of the orchestra echo the great masters such as Mozart or Beethoven. The dramatic intensity comes with the contemporary composer Bryce Dessner and the power of his Aheym «back home» in Yiddish, a work he dedicates to his grandparents, Jews from Western Europe who immigrated to the United States. Finally, it is Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 40 that will close this program in apotheosis. Considered the most tragic of his symphonies, the composer signs an ambiguous work, full of anxieties, which resonates like a catharsis of his own demons.