SONG OF THE TREE

programme

A narrated musical tale for string quartet

Marion Fontana narrator
Anne Baillot illustrations

Musicians of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Music by Beethoven, Dvořák, Haydn, Schubert and Vivaldi

the music

When Seraphim promises that he can make the old, dead maple tree in their garden sing, Peter and Caroline wonder, what is his secret?

"I tell you it is not dead, trees never die...
I will prove it by making your tree sing.
It will sing even better than the days when it was full of birds and inhabited by wind".

the venues

Salle Marie Laggé

OSR Live

DANIEL HARDING

direction

Martha Argerich
Maria João Pires
pianos

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre No 10 en mi bémol majeur, KV 365

Gustav Mahler
Symphonie No 1 en ré majeur, dite 'Titan'

Recorded on 16 December 2021 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

Johannes Brahms

Symphony N° 4 in E minor op.98

Jonathan Nott

conductor

Recorded on 22 March 2017 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

The orchestra

Håkan Hardenberger

trumpet

Viktoria Mullova

violin