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Debussy, Ravel

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Debussy's Jeux and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle return to the Proms for the first of two concerts with an evening of wide-ranging sonic adventure.

In the first half they present three different approaches to the experience of calm, firstly in Ligeti's slowly shifting sound-clouds, then with Wagner's sustained stillness through to Sibelius's most formidable and bleak evocation of a frozen landscape. The French second half is, in contrast, all about movement and dance. Tennis is not the only game played in Debussy's flirtatious ballet Jeux, while Ravel's suite, drawn from his famous ballet begins with a sunrise and ends in an orgy.

Debussy: Jeux
Ravel: Daphnis and ChloΓ« - Suite No. 2

Berliner Philharmoniker
Simon Rattle (conductor).

1 hour, 5 minutes

Last on

Thu 30 Aug 2012 20:40

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