New Perspectives
19:30 Fri 13 Jan 2017 The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Ravel and Shostakovich
Ravel and Shostakovich
Programme
- Noctuelles (arr. Stucky)
- Oiseaux tristes (arr. C. Matthews)
- La vallée des cloches (arr. C. Matthews)World Premiere
- Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
- Symphony No 8 in C minor
Performers
- Nicholas Collonconductor
- Jean-Efflam Bavouzetpiano
Composers
Concert Information
When Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm in the First World War, he asked Ravel to write him a piece he could play with his left hand alone. The remarkable result will be played tonight by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, a BBC Philharmonic favourite and the work's most brilliant living champion. The three recent orchestrations of pieces from Ravel's piano cycle Miroirs include the world-premiere of a BBC Philharmonic commission. Alongside these, Nicholas Collon unleashes Shostakovich¹s Eighth Symphony, a wartime work of such immense power that the Soviet authorities ultimately banned it.
