Closing Concert of the 26th Season

Wagner. Brahms. Berlioz: The War of the Romantics

The season started in a grandiose manner and so it will end in grand style. The programme linking Wagner, Berlioz and Brahms is in effect a reconstruction of the ‘War of the Romantics’, the biggest musical dispute of the 19th century. It was a clash between the conservatives – traditionalists led by Johannes Brahms on one side and the Wagnerians, defending their innovative approach and above all the idea of programme music on the other side.

RICHARD WAGNER
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde WWV 90
HECTOR BERLIOZ
La mort de Cléopâtre H 36
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98

Stéphanie d‘Oustrac — mezzosoprano
Emmanuel Villaume — conductor

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