CAPESTANG
An exceptional evening with the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie. Fifty musicians present a prestigious musical program, particularly suited to the remarkable setting of the Collégiale Saint-Étienne.
Opening the concert, the Sinfonia romana by Hungarian composer Sándor Szokolay, inspired by Gregorian themes, fuses liturgical tradition and musical modernity through rich, profound orchestral variations.
Next up is the Stabat Mater, of which there are many accomplished musical settings – Palestrina, Charpentier, Vivaldi, Rossini, Dvo?ák, Poulenc? Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for two solo voices, strings and basso continuo exalts like no other the painful fever of the Latin poem attributed to Jacopone de Todi.
Finally, Haydn?s wonderfully playful and witty Symphonie concertante, composed during his first triumphal voyage to London in 1792, brings this exceptional program to a close.
All audiences
Duration 1h00 (without intermission)
A site managed by Voies navigables de France in collaboration with members of the “Entente du Canal du Midi” and their tourist operators.
