BBC SO - Beethoven, Pesson, Dalbavie, Ravel

The brilliant young French conductor Lionel Bringuier joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for music by Beethoven, Ravel, Pesson and Dalbavie.

Live from the Barbican Centre, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat

20.05 Interval: A selection of French chamber music performed by members of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme

Gérard Pesson: Ravel à son âme (UK premiere)
Marc-André Dalbavie: Flute Concerto
Ravel: Boléro

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Cox (flute)
Lionel Bringuier (conductor)

Lionel Bringuier, Music Director of the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, is one of the most exciting young conductors to emerge from France in recent years. This is a programme to conjure with for a conductor of his contagious vitality: between Beethoven's spirited Fourth Symphony and the hypnotic extended climax that is Ravel's sultry Boléro are two 21st century French gems. Marc-Andre Dalbavie's Flute Concerto is characterised by transparency and by a fluent dialogue between soloist and orchestra, in which each finds resonances in the other. In Ravel à son âme (Ravel, to his soul), Gérard Pesson pays brief, entrancing tribute to his illustrious predecessor

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