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Prom 22: Ravel, Auerbach, Debussy

Afternoon Concert Proms 2016 Repeats

A Prom featuring the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner in Debussy's La mer, Ravel's Mother Goose Suite and a new work by Lera Auerbach.

Afternoon on 3 - with Jonathan Swain

Another chance to hear the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Vadim Gluzman, Andrew Watts, and Edward Gardner in Debussy's La mer, Ravel's Ma mere l'oye and a new work by Lera Auerbach.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall, London

2pm
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie (Symphony No. 3)
(大象传媒 co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: UK premiere)

c.2.45pm
Claude Debussy: Music for King Lear
Fanfare d'ouverture
Le sommeil de Lear

Claude Debussy: La mer

Vadim Gluzman violin
Andrew Watts counter-tenor
Crouch End Festival Chorus
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor

A new choral-orchestral work by Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach is surrounded by Ravel's shimmering fairy-tale suite, Debussy's glinting portrait of the sea and - in this Shakespeare anniversary year - Debussy's aborted incidental music for King Lear.

[First broadcast on Sunday 31st July]

Followed by a selection of recordings from this week's Proms Artists.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Aug 2016 14:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose 鈥� suite

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Lera Auerbach

    The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman.

  • Claude Debussy

    King Lear 鈥� Fanfare d'ouverture

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Claude Debussy

    King Lear 鈥� Le sommeil de Lear

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Claude Debussy

    La mer

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Five Pieces, Op. 81

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Performer: Heini K盲rkk盲inen.
    • Sibelius: Musical Soiree at Ainola.
    • Ondine.
    • 001.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 1, Op. 11

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 2.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 002.

Credit

Performer 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Aug 2016 14:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3