What if you changed your mind about the wolf? Tan Dun features it on the double bass, during a concerto that immortalizes its position as a sacred animal on the verge of extinction. But it's the three sinister horns that describe its gray silhouette in Prokofiev's famous tale told by the colorful Thibault de Montalembert. Then, with Hollywood magic working, the conductor and composer brings Chaussette, the wolf from the western Dances with Wolves and Kevin Costner's pal, to gallop. An evening not to be missed.

Peter and the Wolf / Tan Dun

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Getting up on a Sunday and enjoying Bach is the guarantee of a week that starts well. The musicians of the National are reunited with harpsichordist Jeanne Jourquin for the second part of their complete Brandenburg Concertos, which they began two seasons ago. We enjoy the Third and its false airs of Vivaldi, the Fourth , a violin concerto dotted with unexpected dialogues with the flutes, and the Sixth and last, a sublimation and quintessence of the concerto grosso .

National Sundays / Bach, Brandenburger

A soldier on leave returns to the village to find his mother and his fiancée. He has a violin in his bag, a small 10-franc violin. On the way, he meets the Devil, who offers to trade the violin for a book. A book that, he promises, will make him very rich...

Maria Chirokoliyska

Events

Past events

Apr 9, 2026

Peter and the Wolf / Tan Dun · Orchestre National de France

Nov 23, 2025

National Sundays / Bach, Brandenburger · Orchestre National de France

Future and recently performed repertoire

Bass in Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Bach

Orchestre National de France

Bass in Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 by Bach

Orchestre National de France

Bass in Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 by Bach

Orchestre National de France

Singer in The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky

Orchestre National de France

Bass in Wolf Totem by Dun

Orchestre National de France

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