Intruders among the strings? Accomplices rather, friends for a day who share their flavor, their sweetness, their roughness perhaps: in Mozart, it is the oboe which slips between the violin, the viola and the cello, partners in a deliciously painful Adagio ; in Dvořák, the arrival of the piano within the quartet prolongs the nostalgia of the dumka, this ballad of Ukrainian origin in which his Quintet is bathed .

The Mornings of the National - Mozart / Dvořák

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

The lion, the rooster, the elephant, the swan, the long-eared characters, and even the pianist, that "digitigrade concertivorous mammal..." Francis Blanche jokes, are all found pell-mell in The Carnival of the Animals , which Saint-Saëns refused to see performed during his lifetime, no doubt for fear of appearing unserious. Seeing the menagerie incomplete, Guillaume Connesson gave it a sequel and imagined grazing, in the musical zoo of Jurassic Trip , six historical miniatures ranging from the tyrannosaurus to the pterodactyl. Adults allowed.

Benjamin Estienne

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 15, 2026

National Sundays: The Carnival of the Animals / Lambert Wilson · Orchestre National de France

Past events

Sep 22, 2025

The Mornings of the National - Mozart / Dvořák · Orchestre National de France

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Piano Quintet No. 2 by Dvořák

Orchestre National de France

Violin in The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns

Orchestre National de France

Violin in Jurassic Trip by Connesson

Orchestre National de France

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