Prom 36: Pierre Boulez, Ravel & Stravinsky

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

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Programme

Boulez, Pierre (1925-2016)	Figures-Doubles-Prismes
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Frontispice (arr. P Boulez)
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Piano Concerto in D major for the left hand
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Images, Set 1 no. 1: Reflets dans l'eau, for piano
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)	The Firebird

Performers

Marc-André Hamelin	Piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth	Conductor

Textures and colours are to the fore in this concert with a French accent. Our triptych of Stravinsky ballets continues with The Firebird – the work that seized the ears of Paris’s elite with its urgent rhythms and evocative Russian folk melodies. We celebrate Boulez’s 90th-birthday year with his first work for full orchestra, a sophisticated experiment in colours and timbres. Marc-André Hamelin joins the BBC SO for Ravel’s jazz- influenced Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.

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Exacting Boulez overshadows Ravel and Stravinsky

George Slater-Walker, 13th August

The monumental shadow of Pierre Boulez loomed rather too large over Ravel's Left Hand Concerto and the full Firebird in François-Xavier Roth's detailed readings.

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