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Prom 22: Ravel, Lera Auerbach and Debussy

31/07/2016

2016

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2016, Prom 22: Ravel, Lera Auerbach and Debussy

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner in music by Ravel, Lera Auerbach and Debussy.

The BBC SO conducted by Edward Gardner. Ravel: Mother Goose Suite. Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie. Debussy: Incidental music (King Lear); La Mer.

Live at BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus and violinist Vadim Gluzman in a new work by Lera Auerbach. Plus Debussy's La Mer.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Ian Skelly 

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite 
Lera Auerbach: The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie (Symphony No.3 for violin, choir and orchestra) 
(BBC co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: UK premiere)

c. 20.35 INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Shakespeare - Law and Lawyers 
What did Shakespeare know of the law? Geoffrey Robertson QC in conversation with Anne McElvoy, with readings performed in front of the audience at Imperial College Union. 

c. 20.55
Debussy orch. Roger-Ducasse: King Lear - incidental music
Debussy: La Mer 


Vadim Gluzman, violin 
Nina Bennett, soprano
Helen Neeves, soprano
Andrew Watts, countertenor
Tom Raskin, tenor
Andrew Rupp, bass
Crouch End Festival Chorus 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Edward Gardner conductor 

Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach's The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie is her Symphony No.3 - for solo violin, vocal soloists, choir and orchestra. Violinist Vadim Gluzman is the travelling musical storyteller who introduces a collection of wondrous tales by the mysterious author Erroneous Anonymous and Lera Auerbach herself. This voyage of imagination is inspired by the tradition of 'nonsense' poems, and has characters such as the Common Corporant, the Moon-Rider, and the Flying Pig, who enjoys sitting on a cloud watching the crowd. 

There's also Ravel's shimmering fairy-tale suite, Debussy's glinting portrait of the sea and - in this Shakespeare anniversary year - Debussy's aborted incidental music for King Lear.


PROMS EXTRA: Shakespeare - Law and Lawyers
Continuing our exploration of the ways in which Shakespeare portrayed aspects of professional life, Geoffrey Robertson QC talks about the law and lawyers, contending that Shakespeare must either have studied at the Inns of Court or was close friends with those who did. Highlights of a discussion hosted by Anne McElvoy and recorded at Imperial College Union earlier this evening.

Producer: Luke Mulhall.

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