At the Jardins de la Fontaine, this Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., the 2nd edition of the Rencontres musicales de Nîmes opens. For this concert, Jean-Jacques Kantorow conducts the Orchester National d’Auvergne and the soloists Alexandre, his son, Liya Petrova and Aurélien Pascal.
In co-production with the Chaise-Dieu festival, where all the artists were present on Sunday August 22 with an identical program, the Musical Meetings of Nîmes open this Tuesday at the Jardins de la Fontaine. Opportunity for, after countless years of absence, to hear a musical formation and prestigious soloists invest the place. For the conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow, an opportunity to better take the pulse of Nîmes. “I came to play there two or three times but without having the time to really stop there”. Alexandre, himself, already present in August 2022 for the launch of the concert cycle, will undoubtedly take advantage of the next few days to perfect his knowledge of the city and identify the potential of the sites which could, in the future, also house the evenings of future editions.
For the inaugural concert of this Tuesday evening, perfect agreement on the composition of the program: “The choice was made by mutual agreement during the discussions between the two of us and in exchange with the orchestra”, underline, in watching, the two artists. Jean-Jacques Kantorow evokes one of the chosen scores, The Hebrides, by Mendelssohn. “It is a work that is associated with a journey, in the form of a story, with a maritime climate, which brings us to Fingal’s cave, with the echo of the tides, the bag and the surf”. Another work by the same composer displayed on the program, the “Italian” symphony n°4. For the conductor, “a score of jubilant orchestration, like a celebration, written by a Mendelssohn who crossed all of Italy on foot.”
For this great opening concert, a few meters from the source of the Fountain, another key work of the concerts, the triple concerto for violin, cello and piano, by Beethoven. Interpretation: Alexandre Kantorow, Liya Petrova and Aurélien Pascal. In a composer a little frustrated with operas, an almost theatrical score. “Music with pulsations, which imposes a framework and which requires avoiding pitfalls. This concerto requires from the performers the same musical desire, an osmosis”, underlines the pianist, who won in 2019 both the first prize and the gold medal of the famous Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. Among his soon-to-be-expected recordings is the continuation of the Brahms sonata cycle. While on the horizon the project of a 2nd concerto by Tchaikovsky is taking shape, pending chosen conditions.
In this expectation, place in Nîmes, this evening. If, a few years ago, the artistic meetings between the father and the son had had a certain frequency, the career of one and the other had made them more spaced out. Musical reunion in the early evening under the sky of the Jardins de la Fontaine.
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