Prom 26: Debussy / Dutilleux / Ravel

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Dutilleux, Henri (1916-2013)	Tout un monde lointain, concerto for cello and orchestra
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Boléro
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Daphnis et Chloé

Performers

Lynn Harrell	Cello
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sir Donald Runnicles	Conductor

Returning to the Proms for the first time since 1988, cellist Lynn Harrell celebrates the 95th-birthday year of Henri Dutilleux with a performance of one of his best-loved works, nocturnal, mysterious and beautifully coloured. Debussy’s languorous reverie fired up a stylistic revolution and gained notoriety when Nijinsky choreographed it for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

The same company commissioned Ravel’s sumptuous evocation of Ancient Greece, embracing the most atmospheric sunrise in all music, but before that there’s room for his notionally Hispanic experiment in writing ‘orchestral tissue without music’ – the everpopular Boléro.

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Prom 26: Debussy, Dutilleux and Ravel

Kay Kempin, 6th August

An evening of French music, the notes from Debussy, Ravel and Dutilleux lingered in the sticky summer air long after the concert finished.Making their BBC Proms debut, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, conducted by Donald Runnicles with chorus-master Christopher Bell, took command of the stage.

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