Berlioz’s Birthplace – La Côte Saint-André

Festival Berlioz

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The Festival Berlioz 2013 will take place from 22 August to 1 September. Here is the programme of the Festival. We are most grateful to M. Bruno Messina, Director of the Festival  Berlioz, for sending us a copy of the programme in the original French in pdf format. We have transcribed the programme and translated it into English for publication on this page.

1. Concerts

22 August, 4pm Grand Festive Overture 
Traditional casting of bells

Presentation and preparation of the casting, traditional music and dances, games and other animations from 4pm

On-the-spot casting at 10pm

Admission free

Château, Bressieux 
23 August, 5pm François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 1, no. 2 and no. 3

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
23 August, 9pm

Jeune Orchestre Européen Hector Berlioz
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Lilo Baur, stage design
Chœur Britten – Jeune chœur symphonique (Nicole Corti, director)
I. Druet, J.-F. Borras, M. Tassou, A. Extremo, P. Ermelier, T. Dolié, L. Bertin-Hugault

Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénedict
Opéra-comique after Shakespeare

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
24 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 5, no. 6 and no. 7

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
24 August, 5pm Quatuor Cambini

Mendelssohn, Quartet in E flat
Gouvy, Quartet in A minor
David, Quartet no. 4 in E minor

Église, Le Grand-Lemps
24 August, 9pm

Orchestre National de Lyon
Léonard Slatkin, conductor
Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Liszt: Totentanz, for piano and orchestra
Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
25 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 4, no. 9, no. 10 and no. 8 Pathétique

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
25 August, 5pm

Bertrand Chamayou, piano

Schubert: Zwölf Ländler D 790
Schubert / Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Schubert: Allegretto in C minor – Wanderer Fantasy
Liszt: Jeux d’eau à la villa d’Este
Liszt: Sonnet 123 de Pétrarque
Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante

Chapelle-Sainte-Marie-d’en-Haut, Grenoble
25 August, 9pm

La Chambre Philharmonique
Emmanuel Krivine, conductor
Amihai Groszo, viola

Berlioz: Harold en Italie
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 Eroica

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
26 August, 3pm

Carpe Diem
Jean-Pierre Arnaud, conductor
Daniel Mesguich, narrator

Wagner / Arnaud: Tristan and Isolde

Programme repeated at 9pm

Chapelle des Apprentis d’Auteuil, La Côte-Saint-André
26 August, 5pm Eburon Quintet, brass Église, La Côte-Saint-André
26 August, 9pm

Carpe Diem
Jean-Pierre Arnaud, conductor
Daniel Mesguich, narrator

Wagner / Arnaud: Tristan and Isolde

Chapelle des Apprentis d’Auteuil, La Côte-Saint-André
27 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 11, no. 12 Funeral march, 
no. 13 Quasi una fantasia and no. 14 Moonlight

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
27 August, 5pm Emmanuel Ceysson, harp Église, Penol
27 August, 9pm Orchestre National de Lyon
Léonard Slatkin, conductor
Véronique Gens, mezzo-soprano

Berlioz: 
   Benvenuto Cellini, overture
   Invitation à la valse
   La Captive
   La Belle voyageuse
   Le Jeune pâtre breton
   Le Roi des Aulnes

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
28 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 16, no. 17 The Tempest and no. 18 The Hunt

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
28 August, 5pm

Emmanuel Christien, piano

Works by Wagner, Liszt, Schumann, Schubert

Maison du Département, Bourgoin-Jallieu
28 August, 9pm

Orchestre des pays de Savoie
Nicholas Chalvin, conductor
Chœur et solistes de Lyon-Bernard Tétu
Marianna Pizzolato, Orphée
Marie Arnet, Eurydice
Bénédicte Tauran, Amour

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (Berlioz version)

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
29 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 15 Pastoral, no. 19, no. 20 and no. 21 Waldstein

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
29 August, 5pm

Wilhelm Latchoumia, piano

Berlioz / Liszt: Danse des Sylphes
Wagner / Liszt: Fantasie sur des thèmes de Rienzi
Wagner / Liszt: Fantasy in F sharp minor
Wagner / Jaël: Tristan et Isolde
Wagner / Liszt: La Mort d’Isolde
Wagner / Brassin: The Ride of the Walkyries 
Wagner / Wolf: Paraphrase on The Walkyrie

Couvent des Carmes, Beauvoir-en-Royans
29 August, 9pm

Brussels Philharmonic
Fabien Gabel, conductor
Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano

Berlioz: Le Corsaire, overture
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Boulez: Notations I to IV and VII
Moussorgski / Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
30 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 22, no. 24 and no. 26 Les Adieux,
no. 25 Alla tedesca and no. 23 Appassionata

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
30 August, 9pm

Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble
Marc Minkowski, conductor
Evgeny Nikitin, baritone-bass

Wagner, Concert in Vienna 1863:
Faust overture 
Meistersingers
   Overture
   Pogner’s homily
Tannhäuser, overture
The Walkyrie
   Sigmund’s love song
   The Ride of the Walkyries
   Wotan’s Farewell

Châteaux Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
31 August, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 27, no. 28 and no. 29 Hammerklavier

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
31 August, 5pm Opus V, Quintet à Cordes

David: Les Quatre saisons (excerpts)
Onslow: Quintette avec contrebasse

Église, Marnans
31 August, 9pm

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
François-Xavier Roth, conductor

Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict, overture
Boulez: Rituel
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André
1 September, 11am Le Balcon
with the Ensemble à Vent de l’Isère

Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
Berlioz / Lavandier: Symphonie fantastique (for sonically enhanced orchestra)

La Halle, La Côte-Saint-André
1 September, 5pm

François-Frédéric Guy, piano

Beethoven: All 32 piano Sonatas
Sonatas no. 30, no. 31 and no. 32

Église, La Côte-Saint-André
1 September, 9pm

European Camerata
Laurent Quénelle, conductor
Natalie Dessay, soprano
Stella Grigorian, mezzo-soprano
Stéphane Degout, baritone

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
Rachmaninov, Rimski-Korsakov, Duparc: Songs
Bizet: Jeux d’enfants
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été

Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André

2. Sous le balcon d’Hector [under Hector’s balcony]

Every evening, under Hector’s balcony, the Festival offers a musical voyage in time. Les Cuivres romantiques an d their period instruments reawaken the image of 19th century society... With Harriet meets Harold meets Juliet meets Hector, Jacques Rebotier will weave threads of poetry and music between the reinvented life of Berlioz and his own compositions and writings.

Les Cuivres romantiques : from 23 to 25 August  
Jacques Rebotier : from 27 August to 1st September
7.00pm, Garden of the Hector Berlioz Museum

3. Readings and meetings

Talks, readings and meetings related to Berlioz and his works will punctuate this anniversary edition.

Further information:
Festival Berlioz
38, Place de la Halle – BP 64, 38260 La Côte Saint-André
Tel. : 04 74 20 31 37
Fax : 04 74 20 25 45
web: www.festivalberlioz.com

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