Night of the cello

2009-04-11 20:00

As part of the Printemps des Arts spring arts festival, there will be a concert on every floor of the Oceanographic Museum. Walk freely from one concert to the next. The opening and the final will be orchestrated by Frederic Audibert and his pupils.

Pieter Wispelwey plays sonatas by Bach (suite no. 3), Crumb, and Ligeti.

Gary Hoffman on cello and David Selig on piano play sonatas by Magnard and Mendellsohn.

Marc Coppey on cello and Peter Laul on piano Kurtag's Pilinskzy Janos Gerard de Nerval op. 5b, Bach's suite no. 5 and Shostakovitch's sonata op. 40.

Alain Meunier plays Bach's suites nos. 6 and 4.

The Cello Octet Amsterdam plays Berio's Korot, Radulescu's Pablo Casals a San Marco di Venezia (an arrangement of the Sarabande from Bach's 5th cello suite), Kagel's motets, and Boulez's Messagesquisse for 7 cellos.

Frederic Audibert plays Bach's suite no. 1, Gabrielli's Ricercare, Jean-Louis et Jean-Pierre Duport's Etudes, Xenakis' Kottos and Piatti's Caprices.

Emmanuelle Bertrand on cello and Pascal Amoyel on piano play Bach's suite no. 2 and Reger's Petite Romance.

Students from the Ecole Superieure d’Arts Plastiques will also be exhibiting their work throughout the museum during the evening.