19:30 Monday 14 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki European première
Inon Barnatan piano
Sally Matthews soprano
Mihoko Fujimura mezzo-soprano
Finchley Childrens Music Group
New London Children's Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kazushi Ono conductor
Sunlight and sensitivity dominate Debussy's ravishing Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. The cooler shades of jazz shoot through Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hibiki (Japanese for "beautiful sound") makes reference to the earthquake and devastating tsunami which struck north-east Japan in 2011. A children's chorus and settings of Japanese poetry for soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists create a sequence of threnodies offering solace after loss. This is the European premiere.
Royal Albert Hall
Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki European première
Inon Barnatan piano
Sally Matthews soprano
Mihoko Fujimura mezzo-soprano
Finchley Childrens Music Group
New London Children's Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kazushi Ono conductor
Sunlight and sensitivity dominate Debussy's ravishing Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. The cooler shades of jazz shoot through Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Mark-Anthony Turnage's Hibiki (Japanese for "beautiful sound") makes reference to the earthquake and devastating tsunami which struck north-east Japan in 2011. A children's chorus and settings of Japanese poetry for soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists create a sequence of threnodies offering solace after loss. This is the European premiere.
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