Martha Argerich, Iddo Bar-Shai, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe perform Haydn and Saint-Saëns

2024 Herbstgold Festival: Esterházy Palace, Eisenstadt

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Cast

Martha Argerich  — Piano

Iddo Bar-Shaï  — Piano

Annie Dutoit  — Narrator

Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Marieke Blankestijn  — Conductor

Program notes

The legendary Martha Argerich headlines another unmissable concert from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's yearly Herbstgold Festival at Esterházy Palace, joining her frequent collaborator Iddo Bar-Shai and daughter Annie Dutoit-Argerich for Saint-Saëns's perennial favorite, The Carnival of the Animals! The COE and their Associate Leader Marieke Blankestijn also round out the menagerie with Haydn's Symphony No. 82, known as "The Bear" for a recurrent motif that made 18th-century audiences think of a dancing bear, and conclude — fittingly, at the palace where the composer worked for much of his life — with another Haydn symphony: the rousing No. 100, whose fanfares for trumpet and percussion have earned it the moniker of "Military."

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