A French violinist conducts Ravel's ghostly elegy for fallen friends — 37 minutes of exquisite grief.
Conducted by French violinist Renaud Capuçon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne performs music from the inter-war period. This evening is dedicated, among others, to Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), whose 150th birthday is being celebrated on 7 March 2025. With ‘Le Tombeau de Couperin’, the composer glorified the Grand Siècle while honouring the memory of his comrades who had fallen at the front.
Direction
Thurre-Millius captures every bow tremor like emotional X-rays.
Cinematography
Intimate camera work treats musicians as living monuments.
Score
Ravel's Tombeau: dance music for the dead, impossibly alive.
Director
Céline Thurre-Millius
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ravel served as a truck driver in WWI, not frontline combat — he watched friends die while hauling artillery through mud.
The 150th anniversary places this performance in a year of Ravel saturation, yet chamber-scale intimacy resists the usual orchestral bombast.
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