Prom 42

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

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Programme

Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)	La Princesse jaune (overture)
Delibes, Léo (1836-1891)	Lakmé (ballet music)	Libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)	Piano Concerto no. 5 in F major, "Egyptian," Op.103
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Préludes, Bk 2 no. 3: La Puerta del Vino
Franck, César (1822-1890)	Les Djinns
Lalo, Edouard (1823-1892)	Namouna, Suite no. 1 (excerpts)
Lalo, Edouard (1823-1892)	Namouna, Suite no. 2 (excerpts)
Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921)	Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale
Williams, Pharrell (b. 1973)	Get Lucky

Performers

Cédric Tiberghien	Piano
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth	Conductor

An all-French programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes’s Lakmé and the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, to Corfu with the adventures of Lalo’s Namouna. Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto.

Tickets £9.50 £50.

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An exotic banquet to savour from Les Siècles

Mark Pullinger, 17th August

It was truly magnifique to welcome French period instrument orchestra Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth to the BBC Proms for a highly perfumed programme of exotic sweetmeats.

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