Debussy’s impressionistic colours give way to Ravel’s dazzling concerto and wild, untamed waltz; Lutosławski exhilarates in his Concerto for Orchestra.
Alexandre Bloch conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (11 mins)
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G (22 mins)
Interval
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra (29 mins)
Maurice Ravel
La valse (13 mins)
Debussy’s 1894 impressionistic musical canvas was a turning-point in music. Beginning with a seductive solo flute, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune languidly blends and blurs harmonies in its depiction of a faun on a hazy afternoon.
No less inventive, Ravel’s Piano Concerto and La valse blend graceful classical restraint with contemporary, jazz-flavoured flamboyance, while Lutosławski channels Bartók in an exciting orchestral work of freshness and vibrancy.
French conductor Alexandre Bloch – winner of the 2012 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition – brings a Gallic sensibility to this sensational programme, and is joined by an acclaimed veteran of the Ravel Concerto, pianist Alice Sara Ott.
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