Mito Chamber Orchestra Regular Concerts 2001 (English)

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MITO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (MCO): The 46th Regular Concert

Conductor: Jean-François Paillard

June 9 (Sat) 2001, 6:30 p.m.
June 10 (Sun) 2001, 2:00 p.m.
S ¥7,000, A ¥5,500, B ¥3,500 All seats reserved. Tickets now on sale.

Rameau: "LesIindes Galantes" suite
Leclair: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 7-2
* Violin: Yoko Kubo
Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Violoncello
* Harpsichord: Richard D. Siegel
Debussy (arr. Buüsser) : Petite suite
Honegger: Symphony No. 2

Jean-François Paillard, the "grand chef" of classical music, makes an appearance at Mito, opening the curtain on "fêtes galantes" (the elegant feast).

MCO welcomes this French musician -- who leads the eponymously named ensemble, the Paillard Chamber Orchestra, a leader in the revival of French classical music -- to the director's podium for its 46th Regular Concert.
The program features a unique assortment of works, beautifully blending the past with the present in a way that perhaps only Paillard could manage. It represents a double homage to French classical music of the 18th century.

The first half of the concert consists of two French works from Paris during the Rococo Period. Both were originally performed during the reign of Louis XV. Coincidentally, both composers died in the same year, 1764. The first piece to be performed is "Les indes galantes" by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). The piece bears a close resemblance to a luxuriously appointed stage for opera or ballet. It will be followed by a violin concerto by Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), who boldly incorporated the musical techniques of the Italian violin.

The second half of the concert makes a dramatic transition to works by more contemporary composers -- works that can all be characterized as paeans to the 18th century. The first piece, Manuel de Falla's Concert for Harpsichord, features a keyboard instrument that once stood proudly in the royal courts and salons of that period. The next piece, Claude Debussy's "Petite Suite," borrows its name from a stanza of a poem written by Verlaine, and directs our gaze to the world found in paintings by Watteau. The last piece of the program, one of the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger's symphonies, reminds us of the threat of World War II, which abruptly and violently shook the world of music. Amidst the intense grief of the reverberating strings, the majestic chorale of the trumpets emerges, almost as if an entreaty is being made to God for salvation, in an age when people were bound tightly with God through intense faith.

The curtain will soon rise upon "fêtes galantes" prepared by Paillard and MCO!

Mito Chamber Orchestra is greatfully supported by substantial contributions from Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Supported by: Zaidanhojin Genden Fureai Ibaraki Zaidan

Cooperation: All Nippon Airways (ANA)

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