Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner
Live at the ±«Óãtv Proms: the ±á²¹±ô±ôé conducted by Mark Elder with the ±á²¹±ô±ôé Choir and Youth Choir, plus sopranos Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany, in music by Debussy and Stravinsky.
Live at the ±«Óãtv Proms: the ±á²¹±ô±ôé conducted by Mark Elder with the ±á²¹±ô±ôé Choir and Youth Choir plus soloists Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany, with music by Debussy and Stravinsky.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Redmond
7.30pm
Wagner: Tannhäuser - overture
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
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Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Stravinsky: The Firebird - suite (1945 version)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
±á²¹±ô±ôé Choir (female voices)
±á²¹±ô±ôé Youth Choir (female voices)
±á²¹±ô±ôé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused, mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue.
Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhäuser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city.
Tonight's second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which tonight's symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.
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Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser - overture
Orchestra: ±á²¹±ô±ôé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. -
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Claude Debussy
La damoiselle élue
Performer: Sophie Bevan. Performer: Anna Stéphany. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Nightingale
Orchestra: ±á²¹±ô±ôé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. -
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird - suite (1945 version)
Orchestra: ±á²¹±ô±ôé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. -
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Claude Debussy
Children's Corner
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Debussy: Children's Corner, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano: Angela Hewitt.
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- Thu 26 Jul 2018 19:30±«Óãtv Radio 3
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