19:30 Sunday 31 Jul 2016
Royal Albert Hall
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose – suite
Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
Claude Debussy: King Lear – Fanfare d'ouverture; Le sommeil de Lear
Claude Debussy: La mer
Vadim Gluzman violin
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach's The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie is a symphonic fantasy for solo violin, vocal soloists, choir and orchestra. Violinist Vadim Gluzman is the travelling musical storyteller who introduces a collection of wondrous tales by the mysterious author Erroneous Anonymous and Lera Auerbach herself. This voyage of imagination is inspired by the tradition of 'nonsense' poems, and has characters such as the Common Corporant, the Moon-Rider, and the Flying Pig, who enjoys sitting on a cloud watching the crowd.
There's also Ravel's shimmering fairy-tale suite, Debussy's glinting portrait of the sea and - in this Shakespeare anniversary year - Debussy's aborted incidental music for King Lear.
Royal Albert Hall
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose – suite
Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)
Claude Debussy: King Lear – Fanfare d'ouverture; Le sommeil de Lear
Claude Debussy: La mer
Vadim Gluzman violin
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach's The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie is a symphonic fantasy for solo violin, vocal soloists, choir and orchestra. Violinist Vadim Gluzman is the travelling musical storyteller who introduces a collection of wondrous tales by the mysterious author Erroneous Anonymous and Lera Auerbach herself. This voyage of imagination is inspired by the tradition of 'nonsense' poems, and has characters such as the Common Corporant, the Moon-Rider, and the Flying Pig, who enjoys sitting on a cloud watching the crowd.
There's also Ravel's shimmering fairy-tale suite, Debussy's glinting portrait of the sea and - in this Shakespeare anniversary year - Debussy's aborted incidental music for King Lear.
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