Wed 4 Sep 2024

• 18:30

  Prom 59: A French Fantasy – Boulanger, Fauré and Ravel

  Royal Albert Hall

  Stéphane Denève leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an evening of French music. Works by Lili Boulanger and Ravel frame Fauré’s elegant, consolatory Requiem and his incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande.

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  Stéphane Denève leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an evening of French music. Works by Lili Boulanger and Ravel frame Fauré’s elegant, consolatory Requiem and his incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande.

  Programme

  • • • Lili Boulanger
      • Pie Jesu(4 mins)
    • • Gabriel Fauré
      • Requiem(39 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Gabriel Fauré
      • Pelleas and Melisande – suite(18 mins)
    • • Lili Boulanger
      • Vieille prière bouddhique(7 mins)
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No. 2(18 mins)

  Performers

  • Golda Schultz

    soprano
    soprano
  • Laurence Kilsby

    tenor
    tenor
  • Jacques Imbrailo

    baritone
    baritone
  • BBC Symphony Chorus
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Stéphane Denève

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Lili Boulanger
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Maurice Ravel

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• 22:30

  Prom 60: Late Night with Eric Whitacre

  Royal Albert Hall

  Eric Whitacre leads the BBC Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new BBC co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence

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  Eric Whitacre leads the BBC Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new BBC co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence

  Programme

  • • • Eric Whitacre
      • Eternity in an Hour(60 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere

  Performers

  • Christopher Glynn

    piano
    piano
  • Lesjamusic

    electronics
    electronics
  • 12 Ensemble
  • BBC Singers
  • Eric Whitacre

    conductor/electronics
    conductor/electronics

  Composers

  • Eric Whitacre

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