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12 Aug 2015, Royal Albert Hall

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Prom 36: Pierre Boulez, Ravel & Stravinsky

18:30 Wed 12 Aug 2015 Royal Albert Hall

Marc-André Hamelin performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand before the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor François-Xavier Roth turn to Stravinsky’s 'The Firebird'.

Programme

- - Pierre Boulez
  - Figures – Doubles – Prismes(22 mins)
- - interval
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez)(2 mins)
  - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand(19 mins)
- - Claude Debussy
  - Images, Book 1 – Reflets dans l'eauEncore
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - The Firebird(46 mins)

Performers

Marc-André Hamelin
piano
piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
François‐Xavier Roth
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

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.