Whether original works or transcriptions of orchestral pieces, most are inspired by famous love stories: "Pelléas et Mélisande", which inspired Gabriel Fauré’s "Suite Pelléas et Mélisande" and "Tristan and Isolde", which serves as the basis for Eric Lebrun’s "La Folie Tristan".
Music and poetry are thus inseparable from this program.
Accordingly, interspersed with the musical pieces, Axelle Thiry, famous radio host from Musiq3, RTBF, will read a poem by Augusta Holmès, excerpts from Maeterlinck’s "Pelléas et Mélisande", and excerpts from "La Folie Tristan", a medieval poem. Also to be read are a poem by Marie Krysinska—a contemporary of Augusta Holmès who was influential in her day but is now unjustly forgotten—as well as a poem by Paul Fort.