ORCHESTRE DE PARIS ANNOUNCES 2024/25 SEASON
Hot off the heels of the critically acclaimed tour to the States and Canada, the Orchestre de Paris has announced the programme for its fourth season with Klaus Mäkelä. With a focus on French composers and new works, the 2024 / 25 season pays tribute to the anniversaries of both Ravel and Boulez, and features music by Berlioz, Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc and Messiaen. New commissions see the premieres of Thierry Escaich’s “Lux Aeterna” and Charlotte Bray’s “A Sky Too Small”. Guest soloists include violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Yunchan Lim.
In addition to eight weeks of concerts at home in the Philharmonie and at the Louvre Museum, Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris perform in residency at the Vienna Musikverein, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and on tour to Baden Baden, Essen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, the BBC Proms, Granada and Lucerne Festivals. They return to Asia for their second tour in two years, closing the season in June 2025 with three weeks of concerts in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
PROGRAMME OF CONCERTS AT THE PARIS PHILHARMONIE
SEPTEMBER 11
Peteris Vasks: Laudate Dominum
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Peteris Vasks Pater Noster
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. “Eroica”
Soloist: Lisa Batiashvili
SEPTEMBER 12
Gala concert – programme TBA
OCTOBER 2 & 3
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9
OCTOBER 4 (Chamber music concert)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Sextet “Souvenir de Florence”
Anton Arenski: Vocal Quartet with cello accompaniment
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (arr. by Paul Drayton)
NOVEMBER 6 & 7
Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Olivier Messiaen: L’Ascension
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem (1900 version)
Thierry Escaich: Lux Aeterna – world premiere
Choir of the Orchestre de Paris
Youth Choir of the Orchestre de Paris
Soloists: Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Jean-Sébastien Bou (baritone)
DECEMBER 4 & 5
Charlotte Bray: A Sky Too Small – world premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Soloist: Mitsuko Uchida
JANUARY 9 & 10
Pierre Boulez: Initiale
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
Francis Poulenc: Gloria
Modeste Mussorgsky (arr. Maurice Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Choir of the Orchestre de Paris
Soloist: Elsa Benoit
FEBRUARY 18 & 19
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye
Igor Stravinsky: Petrouchka
APRIL 8 & 9
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor
Orchestre de Paris & Le Concert d’Astrée
Choir of the Orchestre de Paris
Soloists: Julia Kleiter (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Milan Siljanov (baritone)
JUNE 4 & 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “avec orgue”
Soloist: Yunchan Lim
The complete season programme will be updated onto the website calendar, following the announcement of the Oslo Philharmonic’s 2024 / 25 season on 25 April.
