Trois chants de Noël | Canon pour Werner Reinhart | Dédicace de Pierre de Ronsard | Sonnets à Cassandre | Le Petit village

Melodies and Melodramas – Frank Martin and Arnold Schönberg in the Moonlight

Frank Martin Three Christmas songs, for flute, voice and piano
Frank Martin Canon for Werner Reinhart, for eight voices
Frank Martin Dédicace de Pierre de Ronsard, for tenor and piano
Frank Martin Four Sonnets to Cassandra, for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola and cello
Frank Martin The little village (chanson en canon), pour six voix mixtes
Arnold Schönberg Pierrot Lunaire

Giovanni Fanizza, conductor (Pierrot Lunaire)
Laurine Moulin, vocals (Pierrot Lunaire)

Commemorating both the 50th anniversary of Frank Martin’s death and the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg’s birth, this concert offers a bold juxtaposition of these two great composers.
While both composers drew their inspiration from poets, Frank Martin transcribed his emotions through harmonious, melodic compositions rooted in popular music, whereas Arnold Schönberg disrupted the codes and established a radically new musical language. This concert is a rare opportunity to experience the contrast between Schönberg’s melodramatic, half-sung, half-spoken text of poignant atonality and the reassuring sweetness of Martin’s melodies.