Prom 36: Pierre Boulez, Ravel & Stravinsky

12 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Wed 12 Aug 2015 Next Event

Proms 2015 Prom 36: Pierre Boulez, Ravel & Stravinsky

18:30 Wed 12 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall

Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin performs Ravel鈥檚 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand before the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra and conductor Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth turn to Stravinsky鈥檚 'The Firebird'.

Programme

- - Pierre Boulez
  - Figures 鈥� Doubles 鈥� Prismes(22 mins)
- - interval
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez)(2 mins)
  - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand(19 mins)
- - Claude Debussy
  - Images, Book 1 鈥� Reflets dans l'eauEncore
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - The Firebird(46 mins)

Performers

Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
piano
piano
91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

Textures and colours are to the fore in this concert with a French accent. Our triptych of Stravinsky ballets continues with The Firebird 鈥� the work that seized the ears of Paris鈥檚 elite with its urgent rhythms and evocative Russian folk melodies. We celebrate Boulez鈥檚 90th-birthday year with his first work for full orchestra, a sophisticated experiment in colours and timbres. Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin joins the 91热爆 SO for Ravel鈥檚 jazz-influenced Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.

Part of

Proms 2015

91热爆

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