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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo: ballet music
Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major
~ Interval ~
Maurice Ravel – Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes
Olivier Messiaen – Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (orch. C. Dingle)
Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements
Maurice Ravel – La Valse
Performers
Nicholas Collon – Conductor
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – piano
BBC Philharmonic
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Programme Note
Mozart’s Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen - originally intended for the composer’s Éclairs sur l’au-delà - brings more birdsong (that of the tui from New Zealand), while Stravinsky’s urbane neo-Classical Symphony combines piquancy and elegance.