Vitalité

A dizzying and vibrant masterpiece, Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra moves across its five movements from rigour to lightness, from shadow to grace, to the bubbling final surge of life. Preceding this fresco, Philippe Leroux's NÉVÉ(s) sketches, around the woody accents of the marimba, a incandescent metaphor for our relationship with climate and melting ice.