Prom 16: Berlioz, Faur茅, Dusapin & Stravinsky

27 Jul 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Wed 27 Jul 2011 Next Event

Proms 2011 Prom 16: Berlioz, Faur茅, Dusapin & Stravinsky

19:00 Wed 27 Jul 2011 Royal Albert Hall

Thierry Fischer and the 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales perform contrasting French favourites, joined by the Arditti Quartet for the UK premiere of a recent work by Pascal Dusapin. Following this, the main event of the evening Stravinsky鈥檚 much-loved, The Firebird.

Programme

- - Hector Berlioz
  - Overture 鈥楲e corsaire鈥�(9 mins)
- - Gabriel Faur茅
  - Pavane
- - Pascal Dusapin
  - String Quartet No. 6, 'Hinterland' ('Hapax' for string quartet and orchestra)(23 mins)UK premiere
- - interval
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - The Firebird Suite(46 mins)

Performers

Composers

About this event

Contrasting French favourites herald the season's second UK premiere of a recent work by Pascal Dusapin, this one owing its existence to the persistence of tonight's soloists.

According to the composer, 'Irvine Arditti asked me for many years to compose a quartet with orchestra. I refused as politely as possible 鈥� Irvine went on trying, again and again.'

The result is a discourse in which, he says, 'each party sets the other one into motion, as if one were the dream of the other'. Acclaimed for their recent live and recorded Stravinsky, Thierry Fischer and the 91热爆 NOW revisit The Firebird, the iridescent ballet that effectively launched the composer's international career and remains among his best-loved scores.