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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Maurice Ravel – Valses Nobles et sentimentales for orchestra
Simon Holt – Morpheus Wakes
Maurice Ravel – La Valse
~ Interval ~
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem, Op.9
Performers
Emmanuel Pahud – flute
Gerald Finley – baritone
Ruby Hughes – soprano
Thierry Fischer – Conductor
BBC National Chorus of Wales
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Programme Note
Ravel’s La valse turns the Viennese waltz into a darkly tinged rhapsody, while his Valses nobles et sentimentales reflects the iconic dance in softer tones.
Duruflé’s Requiem is the musical cousin of Fauré’s more familiar Requiem and anchors its 20th-century harmonies in the same arching plainchant melodies of the past. Flute virtuoso Emmanuel Pahud joins the orchestra for the world premiere of Simon Holt’s flute concerto Morpheus Wakes - written for Pahud himself, who represents the god of dreaming ‘as if slowly waking from adeep, troubled sleep’.