The orchestra plays music full of color and fantasy composed by three French composers: Chabrier, Fauré and Milhaud. It begins with the music that Gabriel Fauré wrote in 1919 for a show inspired by Commedia dell’arte, which explains the title – Bergamasca is a traditional dance from the Italian province of Bergamo. Then there are the (four) picturesque pieces that Emmanuel Chabrier put together in 1888 in a Pastoral Suite, a whirlwind of transparent sonorities, rustic atmospheres, impressionist stains and danceable rhythms. Four more pieces followed, these composed by Fauré in 1898 for an English theater production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s symbolist text Pelléas et Mélisande. Finally, O Boi no Telhado by Darius Milhaud, a musician who brought from Rio de Janeiro a fascination with Latin American rhythms, from the Tango to the Maxixe. In 1920 he composed this “little Carnival symphony” for a farce inspired by the American “Prohibition”.
Chabrier, Fauré & Milhaud
Orquestra Académica Metropolitana
G. Fauré Masques et bergamasques, suite for orchestra
E. Chabrier Pastoral Suite
G. Fauré Suite from the music of the play Pélleas et Mélisande
D. Milhaud The Ox on the Roof
Jean-Marc Burfin and/or Orchestra Conducting Students – ANSO musical direction
