Children in unexpected lead roles, strange or even eerie stories where imagination takes over, magical fairy-tale worlds: fantasy gets carte blanche in this program.

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The story of a poor violinist who, after his death, returns to take his sick child with him may be quite gruesome - Leoš Janáček's "The Fiddler's Child" is beautiful music that resonates with dreams and hope.

Equally moving is Claude Vivier's "Lonely Child": with radical simplicity and purity of heart, he tenderly shows how a mother puts her son to sleep..With the eclectic fantasy world of Stravinsky's Firebird, childlike fantasy once again takes over.