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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 16

BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 16: Part 1: Berlioz, Faure, Dusapin

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Berlioz, Faure, Dusapin

Part 1 Part 1: Berlioz, Faure, Dusapin

2011

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2011, Prom 16, Berlioz, Faure, Dusapin

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC NOW in music by Berlioz, Faure and Dusapin.

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Berlioz: Overture (Le corsaire). Faure: Pavane. Pascal Dusapin: String Quartet No 6 (Hinterland) (UK premiere).

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

French connections abound in the first of two proms given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer. 

Berlioz's dramatic Corsaire overture and Fauré's elegant Pavane preface the UK premiere of a new quartet concerto by Pascal Dusapin. Stravinsky's blazing Firebird, premiered in Paris for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, completes the programme.

Dusapin (b.1955) is one of the leading composers in France today. His new quartet, written for the Arditti Quartet, uses orchestral forces to expand the territory of the soloists. Dusapin explores the relationship between the orchestra and soloists, with musical ideas migrating from the quartet to the orchestral forces behind.

Berlioz: Overture 'Le corsaire'

Fauré: Pavane

Pascal: Dusapin: String Quartet no.6, 'Hinterland'
('Hapax' for string quartet and orchestra)

Arditti Quartet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 29th July at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

Prom 16

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

Martin Handley presents the first of two Proms with the BBC NOW under Thierry Fischer.

Martin Handley presents the first of two Proms with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer. With three works by French composers and one premiered in Paris for the Ballet Russes

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