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Ravel, Debussy

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Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean. Debussy, orch. Henry Wood: La cathedrale engloutie. Debussy: La mer.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales in an Entente Cordiale of British and French music. Joanna MacGregor, widely acclaimed as one of the world's most innovative musicians, is the soloist in Hugh Wood's jazz-influenced Piano Concerto. Hugh Wood celebrates his 80th birthday this year.
Elgar's warm and sunny overture In the South opens the programme, a musical postcard from a happy holiday in Mediterranean Italy.The watery influence seeps into the French second half, which concludes with Debussy's revolutionary seascape La Mer, a sparkling of light at play on the ocean, forever associated with Hokusai's famous woodprint of the Great Wave. Around the same time, Ravel turned his attention to depicting a boat setting sail, fighting with wind and ocean's current. Originally one of his piano pieces, he later scored "Une barque sur l'ocean" with great precision for full orchestral colour. Henry Wood, founder of the Proms, was an early champion of Debussy in England, so it's fitting that Debussy's most popular piano pieces, La cathedrale engloutie, is heard in a rarely heard orchestration by Wood himself.

Ravel: Une barque sur l'oc茅an
Debussy, orch. Henry Wood: La cath茅drale engloutie
Debussy: La mer

Joanna MacGregor (piano)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 2nd August at 2pm.

1 hour, 5 minutes

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Thu 26 Jul 2012 20:25

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