Read and Watch - Ravel and Poulenc with the BBC SO
Graeme Kay
Producer, Speech and Classical Digital Hub, BBC Audio
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BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers' visualisation producer Graeme Kay introduces the artists performing at tonight's BBC SO concert ...
Tonight at London's Barbican Hall, Stéphane Denève will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc's rarely-performed ballet suite, Les animaux modèles (with narrations by actor Stephen Mangan), and Ravel's magical opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music. Stéphane Denève talks about the music and the narrations in the Poulenc...
Conductor Stephane Deneve discusses the BBC SO's concert of Poulenc and Ravel.
In L'enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel tells the magical story of a young boy driven to cruelty by boredom, who provokes the animals and objects around him to spring to life and conspire against him in a phantasmagorical parade. Tonight, the BBC SO is collaborating with the French video artist Jean-Baptiste Barrière, who will offer a live interpretation of the music, transferred on to big screens: wearing digital masks, the singers are transported into dreamlike virtual scenes on screens above the stage. Jean-Baptiste explains more about the concept ...
Jean-Baptiste Barriere describes his video work on the BBC SO's L'Enfant et les Sortileges
You can see images from an earlier visualisation of the Ravel by Jean-Baptiste here.
Finally, here's a short clip of the orchestra rehearsing the music, with the Royal Academy students, at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra rehearses Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges at Maida Vale.
If you can't make the concert tonight, it's scheduled for broadcast on Radio 3 on the afternoon of Sunday 14 July (subject to change).
