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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Chausson, Falla, Debussy and Stravinsky

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Chausson: Soir de fete. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Debussy: Suite (Pelleas et Melisande). Stravinsky: The Firebird.

Live from the Lighthouse, Poole
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra play Chausson, de Falla, Debussy and Stravinsky.
Presented by Martin Handley. A programme which moves from thwe twilight world of Debussy's Pelleas and Falla's evocations in sound of the perfumed nights in his native Andalusia to the fevered world of Stravinsky's Firebird, the magical, glowing bird of Russian fairy talewho can be both a blessing and a curse.

Chausson: Soir de f锚te
De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Debussy: Pell茅as et M茅lisande Suite

8.15: Interval Music
Frank Braley, tonight's piano soloist and the cellist, Gautier Capucon, himself no stranger to the Poole Lighthouse audiences, play an aria from Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila and join up with a group of musical friends for his joyful Septet.

Stravinsky: The Firebird

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Frank Braley, piano
Fabien Gabel, conductor

Stravinsky's Firebird mixes the orchestral mastery of his Russian mentors with the rhythmic vitality of the revolutionary about to burst out of his shell. The musical language shifts between exotic, chromatic gestures to illustrate the supernatural dimension and the sing-song simplicity of folk song for the mortals creating a dazzling, evocative atmosphere.
A Moorish exoticism is also present in de Falla's set of symphonic impressions of the great gardens of Granada and Cordoba, incorporating dance rhythms of Andalusia, whilst Chausson's more personal orchestral picture postcard of nocturnal revelries is altogether more dreamlike and ethereal.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Frank Braley (piano)

    Nights in the Garden of Spain

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat op 65 for piano, trumpet 2 string quartet and double bass

    Performer: Frank Braley. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat op 65 for piano, trumpet 2 string quartet and double bass

    Performer: Frank Braley. Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Janne Saksala.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E flat major H.16.52 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rafa艂 Blechacz.
    • Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart: Sonatas: Rafal Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Mar 2016 19:30