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16 Aug 2017, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Wed 16 Aug 2017 Next Event

Prom 42: Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth

19:30 Wed 16 Aug 2017 Royal Albert Hall

François Xavier-Roth and Les Siècles present a programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes’s Lakmé to the sensual charge of a Bacchanal. Cédric Tiberghien is the soloist for Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto.

Performances & Interviews

01:56

The Proms audience Get Lucky with a dance music classic treat in this surprise encore (2017)

Period French orchestra's cheeky Proms encore of music by compatriot ensemble Daft Punk.

Sep '17BBC Radio 3

00:44

Léo Delibes: Lakmé – ballet music (2017)

Based on Delibes' opera Lakmé, this ballet music captures the ambience of the Orient.

Aug '17BBC Radio 3

02:00

Listen to Saint‐Saëns's Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal - excerpt (Prom 42)

François-Xavier Roth conducts in Saint‐Saëns's Samson and Delilah - Bacchanal (excerpt).

Aug '17BBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - La princesse jaune – overture(7 mins)
- - Léo Delibes
  - Lakmé – ballet music(6 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’(25 mins)
- - interval
- - César Franck
  - Les Djinns(12 mins)
- - Édouard Lalo
  - Namouna – Suite No. 1
  - Namouna – Suite No. 2(22 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal(8 mins)

Performers

Cédric Tiberghien
piano
piano
Les Siècles
François‐Xavier Roth
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

An all-French programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes’s Lakmé and the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, to Corfu with the adventures of Lalo’s Namouna.

Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto.