Concert

European Camerata, Brigitte Fossey, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Laurent Quénelle

Haydn (Kindersinfonie), Glazunov (Concerto for saxophone), Prokofiev (Peter and the wolf)

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Cast

European Camerata

Laurent Quénelle — Violin and direction

Jean-Yves Fourmeau — Saxophonist

Brigitte Fossey — Narrator

Program notes

Dedicated to a young audience, this concert mixes Toy Symphony by Haydn, Concerto for Saxophone by Glazunov, and the musical tale Peter and the Wolf.

Composed in 1936, this work by Prokofiev – commissioned by children's central Theater in Moscow – tells the story of a Russian child, Peter, and his adventures with the animals of the surrounding countryside. Among them, a wolf, which as in every fairy tales, is terrifying ...

For this Peter and the Wolf edition, Annecy Classic Festival invited invited the actress Brigitte Fossey.

This concert, recorded on August 26, will be broadcast on August 27 on medici.tv.

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