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25/02/2016

Ravel - L'heure espagnole

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Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Katie Derham presents Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Charles Dutoit. Plus music by Dickinson, Ferdinand David, Copland and Poulenc.

Katie Derham presents today's Opera Matinee - Ravel's L'Heure espagnole in a performance by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Charles Dutoit. Ravel's comic opera is set over an hour in the clockmaker Torquemada's shop in Spain. Torquemada's wife Concepcion makes full use of the large clocks in the shop to hide her various lovers from her unsuspecting husband. Followed by music with French connections from the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, featuring recent studio recordings from two Radio 3 New Generation Artists, plus Poulenc's glittering Gloria.

2pm 
Ravel L'Heure espagnole
Concepcion....Daniela Mack (mezzo-soprano)
Gonzalve...Julien Behr (tenor)
Torquemada...Francois Piolino (tenor)
Ramiro...Elliot Madore (baritone)
Don Inigo...Davis Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Charles Dutoit (conductor)

3.00pm:
Peter Dickinson: Satie Transformations
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell (conductor)

3.15pm:
Copland: Concerto for clarinet, strings, harp and piano
Annelien van Wauwe (clarinet)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Perry So (conductor)

David (orch. Lindberg): Trombone Concertino in E flat major, Op.4 
Peter Moore (trombone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Perry So (conductor)

c.4.00pm
Poulenc: Gloria
Marita Solberg (soprano)
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

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