TOULOUSE
Numerous musical frescoes revolve around water, whether to inspire reverie or to frighten as a threat. Born in Bologna, Respighi reluctantly moved to Rome, only to be seduced by the city. He thus lent himself to the game of describing the fountains of Rome at selected times of the day. Magnificent in French melody, Stéphane Degout will certainly be like a fish in water with Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer and Ropartz’s Quatre Poèmes, in which the poetic imagination blends elements and feelings. Like a return to sunshine after this melancholy episode, the Pines of Rome take us back to Italy, ending in an impressive apotheosis with the evocation of the Appian Way.
