Sound
The opera of Einojuhani Rautavaara as presented by the Finnish National Opera in 2005
After ten years of loyal service at the helm of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck is flying off to new musical horizons. Before bidding farewell, the conductor and the ensemble offer us a final concert, featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Rufus Wainwright has composed a requiem in memory of those lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. This ode to life uses the full power of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and features actress Meryl Streep.
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Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin has penned many famous American film and TV scores. But it is the theme to Mission: Impossible that he is perhaps most famous for. The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France perform the catchy and irregular piece, as well as many other of Schifrin’s works, conducted by Victor Jacob.
Mikko Franck, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and violinist MarĂa Dueñas join forces for a concert dedicated to Anton Webern and Felix Mendelssohn. An encounter with Mendelssohn's magnificent Violin Concerto at its centre.
A concert dedicated to Canadian film composer Howard Shore, famous for his scores to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and David Cronenberg’s The Fly. With the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Concert filmed on May 12, 2023 in the Auditorium de Radio France, Paris. Program: - Fanfare for Organ and Brass - La Mouche - Le Festin Nu - The Forest, concerto for guitar and orchestra - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mikko Franck invites counter-alto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Maîtrise de Radio France to perform works by Dutilleux, Mahler and Strauss.
A second concert dedicated to the music of Howard Shore, composer of famous film scores such as David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises. Bastien Stil conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Concert filmed on May 14, 2023 in the Auditorium de Radio France, Paris. Program : - Concertino from Eastern Promises, music from the film Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg - The Song of Names, suite for violin and orchestra, music from the film The Song of Names by François Girard - Mythic Gardens concerto for cello and orchestra (concert work) - Ruin and Memory, concerto for piano and orchestra (concert work)
Accompanied by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Beatrice Rana, Mikko Franck conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1.
Live performance from Chorégies d'Orange, 11 July 2015.
Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating the city of lights: gay Paris. Mezzo-soprano Julia Dawson, tenor Ziad Nehme and bass-baritone Douglas Williams also perform. Programme: Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Kurt Weill – Youkali Jacques Offenbach - La Gaîté parisienne
This Finnish National Opera production of the opera “Die tote Stadt” by Erich Wolfgang Korngold was staged by Kasper Holten, with Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul and Camilla Nylund as Marietta, while Mikko Franck directed the Finnish National Orchestra.
