LEGACY

With this project, presented with the complicity of Julien Chauvin‘s ensemble Le Concert de la Loge, Christian-Pierre La Marca offers a new opportunity to listen to the two famous Haydn cello concertos, combining them with compositions by Porpora, Mozart and Gluck.

Cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca is never short of surprises: hybrid programmes crossing genres and expanding musical frontiers, guests inspiring rich exchanges of repertoires, a sharp and passionate eye open to music as much as to the world. If the title and the composers of this new project may seem “classical”, the project, which is indeed grounded in 18th-century Viennese music, is nevertheless once again broadening horizons and encouraging discoveries.

Christian-Pierre La Marca’s incisive and generous cello is perfectly in harmony with the dynamics and the diapason of the Concert de la Loge and its violinist conductor Julien Chauvin, fine specialists in Haydn’s symphonic music. He therefore draws on the links that belong to the history of the instrument while at the same time sublimating all these works of great sensitivity.

This is how he combines pieces in which he is a soloist in his own rights – a solar Finale of Concerto No. 1, a Concerto No. 2 full of light, a meditative Dance of the Blessed Shadows by Gluck or the less well known and splendid Largo of Porpora’s Concerto, the unpublished fragment of Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante together with the well known Symphony n°40 by Mozart.