I think it was a brochure I picked up in a cafe which pointed me to a concert on at a chateau in the banlieues of Paris which hosts chamber music in it's Orangerie every summer.
Since my parents were coming I thought I'd get some tickets. We saw Schubert's Trio No 2 in mi bemol major, op.100 and Tchaikovsky's Trio in minor, "In the memory of a great artist", op.50 performed by Svetlin Roussev on violin, Francois Salque on cello and Elena Rozanova on piano.
The experience was sublime. Un-amplified the music filled the room, once quite literally used to grow citrus - as well as host parties according to the brochure. Aside from the cellist sweating rivulets, the performance seemed effortless. The concerts run every year and I'd recommend it to anyone in Paris. Not to mention the fact that the chateau and gardens are exquisite also.
I managed to forget my camera so pictures are from Wikipedia and the Orangerie festival website.
The opening photo was the Orangerie itself and this is the unprepossessing house built by one of Louis XIV's ministers.
And here's some of the gardens
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Not to mention the gardens are huge. I'd never heard of the place, and though its not as big or complicated as Versailles it's lack of tourists made it perhaps more easily enjoyed.
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