From Johann Sebastian Bach to contemporary music, from vocal works for small groups to scores for large ensembles, from Europe to Latin America via India, Les Folies musicales knows no bounds. Whether it's repertoire or creation, for this second edition of the festival, classical is truly not classical, and it is precisely the ambition and mission of this event to ardently shake up the codes and practices of the concert!

The musicians explore and play on the margins of "classical music" as we usually imagine it. If it's a question of dance, we dance: and the concert becomes a performance. Image and text are also invited, with narrators and videographers who allow us to see and understand what we hear, for our greatest pleasure. We play with constraints: Maurice Ravel composed a Concerto for the left hand and now this hand has become the programmer of a concert in its own right. Last year, Les Apaches! conducted by Julien Masmondet took over Ravel for an evening sliding from classical to techno: this year, they return to the creation sites of Erik Satie's ballet Parade , for a journey through the history of twentieth-century music, all the way to John Cage.

Another distinguished guest is back for this second edition of the festival: the Orchestre de chambre de Paris is inaugurating Les Folies musicales with an evening of concerts, from Johann Sebastian Bach to the present day, during which the composer and violinist Lakshminarayana Subramaniam is in the spotlight. And for the closing of the festival, it is Hector Berlioz that the orchestra will celebrate, around an original program, mixing excerpts from the Symphonie fantastique , the composer's Memoirs and a performance both performed and filmed. And… there are the new guests, who revisit the baroque repertoire through the prism of the French Touch , who mix the texts of Franz Kafka with the notes of another Franz… Liszt, and his companions, or even unexpected arrangements or reductions, which will make rediscover Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire to all those who thought they already knew him too well. Finally, it's also an opportunity to immerse yourself in the work of Franz Schubert with the magnificent voice of Rosemary Standley, accompanied by the Ensemble Contraste. Because we can't repeat it enough: Les Folies musicales is a classical music festival – not classical!