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Afternoon Concert with Jonathan Swain.

Another chance to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus and conductor Ludovic Morlot perform music by Lili Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms.

Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130 'Du fond de l'abîme'

2.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus
An introduction to the music and life of Lili Boulanger, with Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter, presented by Andrew McGregor.

3pm
Debussy: Nocturnes
Ravel: Boléro

Justina GringytÄ—, mezzo-soprano
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

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

The CBSO and Ludovic Morlot mark two major centenaries in this all-French programme. In the centenary of his death, Debussy is celebrated in the languorous beauty of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Nocturnes with their shifting, shimmering play of musical light.

Lili Boulanger, whose death in 1918 at the age of just 24 cut short a career of extraordinary promise, is represented by her powerful setting of Psalm 130 – a musical howl of grief composed at the height of the First World War.

Ravel’s Boléro closes the evening with its hypnotic Spanish dance rhythm and swirling orchestral colours.