iPALPITI FESTIVAL 2023

FRENCH NIGHT

Dinner on the Terrace | French Chef creations
Concert in the Mansion | Orpheus: HOMMAGE A SAINT-SAËNS

With the 2021 premiere of their new album ORPHEUS, The Zadig Trio marked the centenary of Camille Saint-Saëns’s death to admire two essential facets of his work: composition and transcription. Saint-Saëns’ arrangements of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts 1 and 5 and Franz Liszt’s Orpheus frame his own Trio for piano, violin, and cello in E minor op. 92.

PROGRAM

F. Liszt – Orpheus, S.98 (arr. C. Saint-Saëns)

JP. Rameau – Pièces de clavecin en concerts, Premier concert (arr. C. Saint-Saëns)

La Coulicam. La Livri. Le Vézinet

JP. Rameau – Pièces de clavecin en concerts, Cinquième concert (arr. C. Saint-Saëns)

 La Forqueray. La Cupis. La Marais

C. Saint-Saëns – Piano Trio n°2 in e minor, Op. 92

I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Allegretto
III. Andante con moto
IV. Grazioso, poco allegro
V. Allegro

“This program gives us the impression of traveling through time and space, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries…It is a chance to discover or rediscover the compositional skills, sense of form and dialogue, thematic inventiveness, and rich harmonies of Saint-Saëns. True to its penchant for seldom-frequented repertory, Trio Zadig, imitating the Voltairean hero from whom it takes its name, continues its adventure in the world of chamber music.” – Label Fuga Libera