Prom 29: Stravinsky, Messiaen & Ravel

7 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Fri 7 Aug 2015 Next Event

Proms 2015 Prom 29: Stravinsky, Messiaen & Ravel

Prom 29: Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Messiaen & Ravel

18:30 Fri 7 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall

Nicholas Collon conducts a programme of some of the most exciting music of the early 20th century, from Stravinsky鈥檚 'Symphony in Three Movements' to Ravel鈥檚 'La valse'.

Programme

- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Idomeneo 鈥� ballet music(24 mins)
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Piano Concerto in G major(23 mins)
- - interval
- - Olivier Messiaen
  - Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. C. Dingle)(4 mins)unique performance with kind permission of the Fondation Olivier Messiaen: world premiere
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Oiseaux tristes (arr. C. Matthews)(4 mins)成人快手 commission: world premiere
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - Symphony in Three Movements(22 mins)
- - Maurice Ravel
  - La valse(11 mins)
- - Gabriel Piern茅
  - 脡tude de concert

Performers

Composers

About this event

惭辞锄补谤迟鈥檚 Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravel鈥檚 Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen 鈥� originally intended for the composer鈥檚 脡clairs sur l鈥檃u-del脿 鈥� brings more birdsong (that of the tui from New Zealand), while Stravinsky鈥檚 urbane neo-Classical Symphony combines piquancy and elegance.

Part of

Proms 2015 Classical for Starters 2018-19

成人快手

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