For this concert recorded at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, Laurence Equilbey has compiled a programme combining major works from the repertoire and unusual discoveries. First, the famous Coronation Mass by Mozart, heard for the first time at the coronation of Emperor Leopold (but composed 12 years beforehand). The performance reveals the grandiose and extrovert nature of the work, without forgetting the most tender and intimate passages dedicated to the soloists. Then come two rare pieces from major composers of the nineteenth century, Beethoven and Weber, who both played on the symbolic value of distinctive instruments: the rural side of the piccolo, the martial bearing of the drum and the popular sound of the clarinet.