Dizzying. Enchanting. Spectacular.
Debussy, Ravel and Lutosławski
Alexandre Bloch and Alice Sara Ott
Barbican
Public booking opens Wednesday 16 April 10am
Priority booking for LSO Supporters:
Wed 9 Apr 10am LSO Ambassador Friends and Pioneers
Fri 11 Apr 10am All LSO Friends
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)
Alexandre Bloch conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
London Symphony Orchestra
The concert will finish at approximately 8.50pm, including a 20-minute interval (timings subject to change).
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The Concert
Debussy’s impressionistic colours give way to Ravel’s dazzling concerto and wild, untamed waltz; Lutosławski exhilarates in his Concerto for Orchestra.
The Music
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.
The Performers
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.
A succession of scenes through which the faun’s desires and dreams unfold in the heat of the afternoon.
Claude Debussy describes his Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
