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Sound Frontiers: The Philharmonia plays Stravinsky

From Southbank Centre in London, the Philharmonia Orchestra performs classical-themed music by Stravinsky. With Orpheus, Apollon musagete and Persephone.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in an all-Stravinsky concert, with narration by acclaimed French actress Pauline Cheviller. Recorded yesterday at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre. Photo (c) Camilla Greenwell

Igor Stravinsky: Orpheus
Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musag猫te
8.25: Interval
8.45: Igor Stravinsky: 笔别谤蝉茅辫丑辞苍别
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Pauline Cheviller (narrator)
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Philharmonia Voices

Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

This concert in the Philharmonia's major Stravinsky series Myths and Rituals explores his fascination with classical mythology. Music of great subtlety and exquisite beauty, Apollon musag猫te and Orpheus sit alongside Stravinsky's alluring melodrama based on the 91热爆ric hymn to the goddess Persephone, retold in collaboration with the French novelist and poet Andr茅 Gide, here narrated by Pauline Cheviller.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 26 Sep 2016 19:30
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Part 1

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Orpheus - Ballet

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Apollon musag猫te

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Interval

    • Claude Debussy

      6 Epigraphes antiques vers. for piano duet

      Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que. Ensemble: Marielle Lab猫que.
      • Philips.

  • Part 2

    • Igor Stravinsky

      笔别谤蝉茅辫丑辞苍别

      Narrator: Pauline Cheviller. Singer: Andrew Staples. Choir: Tiffin Boys鈥� Choir. Choir: Philharmonia Voices. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.

  • Post-concert

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Ballade no. 1 in G minor Op.23

      Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
      • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Schumann, Chopin, Debussy & Mompou.
      • TESTAMENT.
      • 6.

Broadcast

  • Mon 26 Sep 2016 19:30
    91热爆 Radio 3