Friday January 27 at 8 pm, Live from the Auditorium in Lyon Patricia Petibon (picture) will be "The sorrowful mother who stood still" in the Stabat Mater by Poulenc (a dark and deep work, far from the well-known joyful atmospheres of Poulenc's music), then the soloist of the famous Requiem by Fauré with Lionel Lhote. It is interesting to note that the organ used at the world premiere of this work was the one which is now used at the Auditorium de Lyon.  Every year the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate their birthday in a prestigious place of the European music life. In 2009 they chose the Teatro di San Carlo, a temple of lyric art for over three hundred years. Riccardo Muti, who was born in Naples and has been the music director of La Scala for over 20 years, conducts this gala concert. The programme includes Schubert, Verdi, and La Canzone dei ricordi by Martucci, interpreted by the soprano Violeta Urmana. The life of this violin genius, whose career continued until the very end of his days, almost embraces the whole 20th century. As in a story, Nathan Milstein tells us his relationships with Alexandre Glazounov, Sergeï Rachmaninov, Vladimir Horowitz... A series of archive images bringing back all the memories of the past. With the participation of Pinchas Zukerman. While his latest productions (Iolantha and Perséphone) at the Teatro Real de Madrid are receiving great critical acclaim, watch again Zaide, a masterpiece directed for stage by Peter Sellars, once the « enfant terrible » of stage directing! He could have celebrated his 125th birthday this Saturday, January 28. Find out some archive documents to remember the "most modern of the Romantic pianists". In1967 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, he is eighty when he gives, in the same evening, three concertos byBeethoven. The Fourth concerto is featured in this film, which also contains the encore of the concert, the famousHeroic Polonaise by his fellow-citizen Chopin.