19:30 Wednesday 16 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall
Camille Saint‐Saëns: La princesse jaune – overture
Léo Delibes: Lakmé – ballet music
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No 5 in F major, 'Egyptian'
César Franck: Les Djinns
Édouard Lalo: Namouna – Suite No. 1
Édouard Lalo: Namouna – Suite No. 2
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Les Siècles
François‐Xavier Roth conductor
A French and Belgian programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakmé and the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, to Corfu with the adventures of Lalo's Namouna.
Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Saëns's 'Egyptian' Piano Concerto.
Royal Albert Hall
Camille Saint‐Saëns: La princesse jaune – overture
Léo Delibes: Lakmé – ballet music
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No 5 in F major, 'Egyptian'
César Franck: Les Djinns
Édouard Lalo: Namouna – Suite No. 1
Édouard Lalo: Namouna – Suite No. 2
Camille Saint‐Saëns: Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Les Siècles
François‐Xavier Roth conductor
A French and Belgian programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakmé and the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, to Corfu with the adventures of Lalo's Namouna.
Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Saëns's 'Egyptian' Piano Concerto.
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