le Livtre de Sophie

The Haydn series continues with the Paris Symphony no 87. Julien Chauvin and his orchestra keep shaking us up with historical instruments listening Haydn’s works and several other forgotten scores from the same period. All of them were commissioned for the Concert de la Loge Olympique - ancestor and model for Julien Chauvin and his musicians - and all of them sank into oblivion during the 19th century, except for Haydn’s symphonies. The release offers an opportunity to experience some rare works of Grétry, Lemoyne and Ragué and to revive the success that they once knew.

En compagnie de Sophie Amundsen, le lecteur est initié par le détour de la fiction romanesque aux grands événements et figures de la pensée occidentale : Socrate, Platon, Aristote, le Moyen Age, la Renaissance, Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, Freud, le post-modernisme, entre autres. …

À Brooklyn, en 1947, Stingo, jeune écrivain venu du Sud, rencontre Sophie, jeune catholique polonaise rescapée des camps de la mort. À la relation de la rencontre du jeune homme avec l'amour, se superposent la narration du martyre de Sophie, l'évocation de l'univers concentrationnaire et de l'holocauste nazi. Les deux veines, autobiographique et historique, irriguent en profondeur ce roman et fusionnent en une émouvante parabole sur l'omniprésence du Mal, …

Thanks to Julien Chauvin and his ensemble La Loge, the programs of the Concert Spirituel’s evenings in the late 18th century Paris come back to life. The so called Haydn’s “symphonies parisiennes” are the core of their musical project which also features contemporary composers, some of them are still unknown.