Performances of Claude Debussy at BBC Proms

Sun 10 Aug 2025

• 19:30

  Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO

  Royal Albert Hall

  Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade

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  Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade

  Programme

  • • • Jean Sibelius
      • The Oceanides(11 mins)
    • • Michael Tippett
      • The Rose Lake(29 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Shéhérazade(17 mins)
    • • Claude Debussy
      • La mer(23 mins)

  Performers

  • Aigul Akhmetshina

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Edward Gardner

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jean Sibelius
  • Michael Tippett
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Claude Debussy

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  Part of

  Proms 2025 Discovery at the Proms