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| When: | |
Thursday 23 October 2008 at 20:00 |
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Royal Festival Hall, London |
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| Performers: | |
Philharmonia Orchestra Sylvain Cambreling, conductor Roger Muraro, piano Mireille Delunsch, soprano |
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| Programme : | | Claude Debussy |
| 1: | | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune |
| Olivier Messiaen | |
| 2: | | Reveil des oiseaux (Awakening of the Birds) |
| 3: | | Poèmes pour mi |
| Alexander Scriabin | |
| 4: | | Le Poeme de l'extase, Op 54 |
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Colour and the musical expression of it ties together all four works in this evening’s programme. Debussy’s Prélude, opened up the sound-world of the twentieth-century. Depicting the dreams and desires flitting through the mind of the faun as he lies in the sultry sunshine of a hot summer’s afternoon it weaves a tantalising veil of colours and textures. Colour was also a lifelong passion of Messiaen’s and Réveil des oiseaux, for piano and orchestra (along with much additional percussion) is a glorious depiction of a dawn chorus of French birds. Poèmes pour Mi meanwhile is a celebration of love, an extraordinarily intimate and personal song cycle that celebrates the marriage of Messiaen and ‘Mi’, his pet name for his first wife Claire. Scriabin’s Poème de l’Exstase, a tone poem of great originality, with shifting sound colours that reflect the composer’s admiration of Debussy’s music, provides a glorious climax. |
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| Venue: | |
Royal Festival Hall Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX England |
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