Prom 58 - Part 1
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Rob Cowan presents the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel in Ravel's Mother Goose and Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan.
The second Prom concert given by the New York Philharmonic and its music director Lorin Maazel incorporates music from two great 20th century ballets. With Ravel's fairy tale-inspired Mother Goose, which began life as an amusement at the piano and developed into an orchestral ballet score, as well as Bartok's colourfully scored ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, telling a dark tale of robbery, passion and murder.
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel (conductor)
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite.
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