Triple influence—Mexican, Hungarian, and Czech—for the concert performed by the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of its music director György G. Rath, on Friday, December 6 (at 8 p.m.) and Saturday, December 7 (at 4 p.m.).
The program will open with “Cuando Caiga el Silencio,” written by Mexican composer Ana Lara, a renowned specialist in 20th-century South American music. This is a French premiere, in collaboration with the MANCA International Festival dedicated to contemporary music, which takes place annually in Nice.
In the second part, the talented Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, winner of several major international awards, will be at the keyboard for Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3: one of his final works, written in 1945 in the United States, where he had emigrated to escape Nazism.
The concert will conclude with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Mahler composed this piece between 1889 and 1890, at the peak of his success. It shines with transparent and delicate sounds and ends with the ethereal song of an angel, performed by soprano Anne-Marie Calloni.
