| Main Performers | Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - piano |
| Set List | 'Idomeneo - Ballet Music', Mozart,
'Piano Concerto in G Major', Ravel
INTERVAL
'Un Oiseau Des Arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui)', Messiaen, orch. C Dingle,
'Miroirs - Oiseaux Tristes' Ravel, arr. C Matthews,
'Symphony in Three Movements', Stravinsky
'La Valse', Ravel |
| Performance Notes | World premiere of 'Un Oiseau Des Arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui)', Messiaen.
BBC commission and world premiere of 'Miroirs Oiseaux Tristes' Ravel, arr. C Matthews.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Mozarts Idomeneo owes its ballet sequence to the influence of French opera, and it launches a programme featuring two Frenchmen who idolised Mozart: Ravel and Messiaen. Ravels Piano Concerto in G adds a jazzy colouring to its Classical influences, while Oiseaux tristes and La valse contrast the doleful calls of lost forest birds with a dark, swirling portrait of the disintegration of Vienna. The world premiere of a recently rediscovered work by Messiaen originally intended for the composers Éclairs sur lau-delà brings more birdsong (that of the tui from New Zealand), while Stravinskys urbane neo-Classical Symphony combines piquancy and elegance.
Full house. Approxiamately 400 patrons turned away. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/87),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs |