大象传媒

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

The 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra & Josep Pons live at the 大象传媒 Proms. Jonathan Dove explores Gaia Theory, Ingrid Fliter in Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 & Ravel revels in Daphnis & Chloe, joined by the 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus.

Jonathan Dove: Gaia Theory (大象传媒 commission: world premiere)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

8.25pm Interval

8.45pm
Ravel: Daphnis and Chlo毛 (complete version)

Ingrid Fliter (piano)
大象传媒 Symphony Chorus
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)

Turbulent mythical love and poised Classical elegance come together in a concert that shifts from Jonathan Dove's large-scale orchestral work Gaia Theory to the intimacy of the Viennese salon in Mozart's ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 23, performed by former 大象传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Ingrid Fliter.

Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, Ravel's ballet Daphnis and Chloe is rich in all the colours and rhythms of turn-of-the-century Paris - an orchestral masterpiece that announced its composer as a force with which to be reckoned,

Inspired by the work of James Lovelock and continuing Dove's concern to address environmental issues in his music, Gaia Theory takes as its starting point Lovelock's idea that the Earth behaves as a self-regulating organism, and his description of all the inter-related processes maintaining the earth in the optimum conditions for life as a kind of dance. Dove says, "I was struck by James Lovelock's observation that, since life on earth began, the sun has got perhaps 30% hotter, and yet the earth has not. For hundreds of millions of years, the impact of the sun's heat has been moderated by cloud cover, the atmosphere, the albido of the polar ice-sheets and so on, all affected by the behaviour of microscopic organisms as well as by animal and ultimately by human activity, not to mention the respiration of plants and trees and innumerable processes all, as Lovelock describes, "locked in a sort of dance in which everything changes together.""

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 31st July at 2pm.