BBC SSO 2018/19: Debussy's 'La Mer'
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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£28.00, £23.50, £19.50 & £14.00£14.00 to £28.00
- Dates and times
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22nd Nov 2018
7:30PM - 9:30PM
- Age
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
Season Ticket bookings available from 22/03/18
General Ticket bookings available 30/04/18
“I have slandered the sea” wrote Claude Debussy. “Today it is beautiful enough to defy all comparisons”. Yet 100 years after his death in 1918, Debussy’s La Mer is surely the most poetic seascape ever painted for an orchestra, the work of a composer whose quiet genius turned music into an art of limitless expressive subtlety. This centenary celebration opens with Nocturnes – Impressionist paintings, transformed into ravishing sound – and includes the Prélude whose unprecedented sensuality scandalised Belle Époque Paris. But there’s darkness as well as light: Thomas Dausgaard joins Joaquín Achúcarro in the brooding concerto that Debussy’s compatriot Ravel created for a pianist who’d lost an arm in the Great War.
Prelude: 6.30pm in the Old Fruitmarket
A performance of the music for Javanese gamelan that partly inspired Debussy in 1889 to write the Nocturnes. Performed by Gamelan Naga Mas in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Debussy
Nocturnes*
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Debussy
La Mer
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices*
Joaquín Achúcarro piano
Thomas Dausgaard conductor
Concert ends at approx. 9.30pm
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