Name: The National Orchestra of France in Austria: Grafenegg
Start: 2024-08-31T19:15:00
Location: Grafenegg Wolkenturm

Gautier Capuçon

Cristian Macelaru

Orchestre National de France

More than 120 musicians from all walks of life take center stage to experience the magic of Viva l'Orchestra! This Fête de la Musique lives up to its name, honoring amateur music like no other: musicians from the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre des grands amateurs de Radio France join forces in a joyful atmosphere, both friendly and professional, around a bouquet of well-known and lesser-known pieces. Come join them... or applaud them!

Long live the Orchestra! 2026

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Two pinnacles of film music, both born in 1938. From his gilded exile in Hollywood, Korngold poured grand, ardent melodies into his sensual orchestrations and magnified the adventures of Errol Flynn, aka Robin Hood. Prokofiev, back in a locked-down USSR, signed with Sergei Eisenstein an epic monument of cinema, whose apotheosis would be the Battle on the Ice sealing the victory of Alexander, Prince of Novgorod. Layers of strings and torrents of lyricism in the West, sordid chords on a barbaric orchestra in the East.

Alexander Nevsky / Omer Meir Wellber

Jusqu’ici, il fallait bien croire Hector Berlioz, qui affirmait avoir détruit cette messe composée à 21 ans, jouée pour la première fois à l’église Saint-Roch. Mais en 1992, par le plus grand hasard, un instituteur en retrouva un manuscrit à Anvers. On allait alors découvrir, dans cette partition généreuse, les signes avant-coureurs du révolutionnaire et les traces des futurs Requiem, Symphonie fantastique et autre Benvenuto Cellini. De vingt ans postérieure, la Troisième Symphonie de Louise Farrenc résume un artisanat et une science des proportions qui lui valurent l’admiration de Schumann… et de Berlioz.

Berlioz, Messe solennelle / Dinis Sousa

The sun sets and the Parisian night ignites. At Radio France, the National Day celebrations unfold before thousands of spectators and millions of television viewers, thanks to the Orchestre National de France, the Choir, and the Maîtrise de Radio France, who celebrate music for all, accompanied by a host of stars. Welcome to the Concert de Paris!