Platform: ARTE.TV (concert on demand)
Live performance: Friday 28 November 2025, 20:00 CET (Paris), Auditorium de Radio France
Live broadcast: ARTE Concert
Programme: Bára Gísladóttir sea sons seasons (world premiere); Mahler Fünf frühe Lieder (orch. Berio); Berio Sinfonia
Performers: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Pascal Rophé (conductor); Stéphane Degout (baritone); Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Availability: On demand on ARTE.TV from 28 November to 31 December 2025
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*A centenary tribute to Luciano Berio anchors this programme at the Auditorium de Radio France, presented as part of the Festival d’Automne 2025. Under the direction of Pascal Rophé, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France brings together a world premiere, a reimagined Mahler cycle and one of the major works of the twentieth century.
The evening opens with sea sons seasons by Icelandic composer Bára Gísladóttir, a new commission shared by Radio France, the Festival d’Automne and the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Her writing, rooted in large-scale textures and shifting timbres, sets an atmospheric framework for a programme that moves fluidly between eras and aesthetics.
Baritone Stéphane Degout then performs Mahler’s Fünf frühe Lieder in the orchestration completed by Luciano Berio in 1986. Berio’s version illuminates Mahler’s early songs with a transparent palette, drawing subtle links between the late-Romantic idiom and the Italian composer’s own musical language.
The concert closes with Berio’s Sinfonia, performed with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Written in 1968, the piece remains a landmark of twentieth-century music, weaving texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Samuel Beckett into a dense network of quotations—from Mahler to Debussy—and culminating in a tribute to Martin Luther King. Rophé and the ensemble shape its intricate layers with clarity, revealing a work that continues to resonate more than fifty years after its premiere.
Presented live on ARTE Concert and later offered on demand, this programme offers a rich portrait of Berio on the occasion of his centenary, framed by a major new commission and a rare performance of his orchestration of Mahler.
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