Orchestre de Salon

An impossible-plausible Suite between Cinema and Concert A play of music, early cinema, images and history

Giulio Giurato grand piano (Erard, Parigi, 1847)

Emilio Sala bonimenteur (barker – master storyteller)

Quartetto di Roma

Alessandro Schillaci double bass

Claudio Brizi orgue à célesta mustel (Parigi, 1897) and direction

W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Allegro dal Concerto per Pianoforte n. 20 in re minore K. 466

Larghetto in re maggiore dal Quintetto K. 581

F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Presto-Molto allegro dal Concerto n. 1 op. 25

F. Schubert (1797-1828)

Allegro moderato dalla Sinfonia n. 8 Incompiuta

W. A. Mozart

Rondò K. 617 C.

Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

L’Assassinat du Duc de Guise op. 128

Starting from L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise — the 1908 film by André Calmettes and Charles Le Bargy for which an unsuspected Saint-Saëns composed the score, inaugurating the “Visions d'art” programme at the Salle Charras in Paris at the dawn of film history — an impossible-plausible musical and narrative itinerary moves between sounds, images and stories.