Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Pierre Boulez – Figures - Doubles - Prismes
~ Interval ~
Maurice Ravel – Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez)
Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird, ballet
Performers
François-Xavier Roth – Conductor
Marc-André Hamelin – piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Textures and colours are to the fore in this concert with a French accent. Our triptych of Stravinsky ballets continues with The Firebird - the work that seized the ears of Paris’s elite with its urgent rhythms and evocative Russian folk melodies. We celebrate Boulez’s 90th-birthday year with his first work for full orchestra, a sophisticated experiment in colours and timbres. Marc-André Hamelin joins the BBC SO for Ravel’s jazz-influenced Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein.