Lalo and Debussy: Iberian Brilliance
2026-2027A hyspanic breath runs through this concert—a glowing thread linking nature, myth, and a fascination with the elsewhere. Jimmy López’s Symphony no. 4, inspired by the 2024 solar eclipse, translates the primal power of celestial phenomena into music: tremors of light, shifting shadows, the vertigo of a suspended world. That spellbinding aura continues in Charlotte Sohy’s Danse mystique, where nature becomes ritual, brilliance, enchantment. Then emerges an imagined Spain: the shimmering one of Debussy in Ibéria, and the singular, hybrid vision of Lalo in his Symphonie espagnole. Neither quite a concerto nor a symphony, this work blends Germanic nobility, Andalusian accents, and violinistic sensuality—an ideal setting for Kerson Leong, whose sound magnifies every contour. A program where imagination blazes under the sun of a mythic Spain.
A great classic of the repertoire that takes you on an emotional journey.
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Artists
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Rafael Payare, conductor
Kerson Leong, violin
Program
Jimmy López, Symphony no. 4, Eclipse, First Contact (16 min)
Edouard Lalo, Symphonie espagnole, op. 21 (33 min)
Intermission (20 min)
Charlotte Sohy, Danse mystique, op. 19 (13 min)
Claude Debussy, Ibéria, CD 118; L. 122 (20 min)
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