French Music live from the BBC Philharmonic Studio
Join the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to hear the very first performance of Kenneth Hesketh’s orchestral arrangement of Ravel’s Sonatine. One of Britain's leading sopranos Elizabeth Atherton performs John Adams’ arrangement Debussy’s song cycle of poems written by Charles Baudelaire. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s own Principal Flute Alex Jakeman takes centre stage in Charminade’s sparkling Concertino, meanwhile the concert opens with one of Ravel’s earliest works his Shéhérazade, Overture.