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‘A song without words for orchestra’ - Tippett’s final work The Rose Lake was his response to witnessing a lake in Senegal flushed pink by the midday sun. The result is an ecstatic hymn to nature, teeming with rhythmic energy and thick slashes of melody. Sir Andrew Davis's programme with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra includes two other richly coloured works. There's a suite from Debussy’s shadowy fairy-tale opera Pelléas et Mélisande, arranged by Alain Altinoglu, which receives its UK premiere. And Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist in Szymanowski’s sumptuous Violin Concerto No. 1 - inspired by a poem by the Polish poet Tadeusz MiciÅ„ski and which includes the words "And now we stand by the lake in crimson blossom, in flowing tears of joy, with rapture and fear...."

Recorded at the Barbican Hall on 17 April 2019
Presented by Martin Handley

Michael Tippett: The Rose Lake

8pm Interval

Ravel: Histoires naturelles (1907)
Le Paon (Peacock), Le Grillon (Grasshopper), Le Cygne (Swan), Le Martin-Pěcheur (Kingfisher), La Pintade (Guinea fowl)
Nora Gubisch (mezzo)
Alain Altinoglu (piano)

Dupré: Fugue from Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Pierre Cochereau (organ of Notre Dame, Paris)

8.25pm
Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1
Claude Debussy, arr. Altinoglu: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite (UK premiere)

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)