Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 44 - Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger
Performance Date15 August 2018
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJustina Gringyte - vocal
Orchestra or BandCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsCBSO Youth Chorus,
CBSO Chorus
ConductorsLudovic Morlot
Set List'Prélude à L’Après-Midi D’un Faune’, Debussy,
'Psalm 130, ‘Du Fond de l’Abîme’’, L Boulanger
INTERVAL
'Nocturnes’, Debussy,
'Boléro 15’, Ravel
Performance NotesThe CBSO and Ludovic Morlot mark two major centenaries in this all-French programme. In the centenary of his death, Debussy is celebrated in the languorous beauty of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Nocturnes with their shifting, shimmering play of musical light.

Lili Boulanger, whose death in 1918 at the age of just 24 cut short a career of extraordinary promise, is represented by her powerful setting of Psalm 130 – a musical howl of grief composed at the height of the First World War.

Ravel’s Boléro closes the evening with its hypnotic Spanish dance rhythm and swirling orchestral colours.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2018/51),
Programme (RAHE/1/2018/92),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2018/38),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2018/26, 41)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£100, £6 standing arena and gallery
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2018/92BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 44 - Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger15 August 2018
RAHE/1/2018/51BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Season - Proms Guide13 July-8 September 2018
RAHE/6/2018/38BBC Proms Mini-Guide13 July-8 September 2018
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11341BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2018 - One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/21635Gringyte; Justina (1986-); Lithuanian operatic mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/1181City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO); 1920-; English orchestra
DS/UK/5173City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (CBSO); 1974-; English choir
DS/UK/22001City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus; 1994-; English choir
DS/UK/22002Morlot; Ludovic (fl.2011); French conductor
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