Prom 16 repeat: Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner

Afternoon Concert with Georgia Mann.

Another chance to hear the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder with the Hallé Choir and Youth Choir and soloists Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany in music by Wagner, Debussy and Stravinsky.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Redmond

Wagner: Tannhäuser - overture
Debussy: La damoiselle élue

Interval: Proms Plus
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Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1945 version)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Choir (female voices)
Hallé Youth Choir (female voices)
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue.

Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhäuser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city.

The second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which the symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.

Followed by recordings from this week's Proms Artists.