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BBC Proms: 2018

BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 44: Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger

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15/08/2018

Prom 44: Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger

2018

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Live at the BBC Proms: Ludovic Morlot conducts the CBSO in Debussy, Ravel and Boulanger.

Live at the BBC Proms: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, perform Debussy, Lili Boulanger and Ravel.

Live at BBC Proms: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus and Ludovic Morlot in Debussy, Lili Boulanger and Ravel

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130 'Du fond de l'abîme'

8.10pm Interval: Proms Plus
An introduction to the music and life of Lili Boulanger, with Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter, presented by Andrew McGregor.

8.30pm
Debussy: Nocturnes
Ravel: Boléro

Justina Gringytė, mezzo-soprano
CBSO Youth Chorus
CBSO Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor

The 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.

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 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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