Wed 16 Aug 2017

• 17:45

  Proms Extra: Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Novelist Elif Şafak and New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari with an introduction to the figure of the djinni (genie) in Arabic mythology, ahead of tonight's performance of Franck's Les Djinns.

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• 19:30

  Prom 42: Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth

  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.

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  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.

  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

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns
  • Léo Delibes
  • César Franck
  • Édouard Lalo

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