Dance transformed
The 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis play music by Stravinsky and Ravel. They are joined by pianist Angela Hewitt in one of Mozart's most haunting concertos.
From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Ian Skelly
"Music somehow not of this world, but from somewhere else above" - Diaghilev's words on hearing Stravinsky's music for the 1928 ballet Apollo, hinting at the unearthly nature of his first collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in which the god Apollo shares the stage with three muses. Classical clarity, shape and form characterise this music's spirit. By way of contrast, Angela Hewitt joins the 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis as soloist in Mozart's A major Piano Concerto (K 488), true classicism but enjoying an exploration of colour, harmony and melody. We hear music by Stravinsky of a different, more vivacious style in his orchestrations of piano duets composed for children, his First Suite, first performed only three years before Apollo. Three of its numbers are inspired by national folk dances, a Napolitana, an Espanola and a Balalaika. The dance-infused keyboard music of eighteenth century France, provided the inspiration for Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin" though while writing it, Ravel turned the work into a homage for friends killed in the First World War. Clarity of texture and expression shine through his tributes to friends lost and to music of an earlier age. The "apotheosis of the Viennese Waltz" ends the evening - that was Ravel's own description of "La Valse" - music during which the accepted cultured vision of this highly civilized dance is exploded in an obscene orgy reflecting the fall of the Hapsburg Empire.
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A (K488)
8.15pm
Music Interval (CD)
Ravel: Miroirs: Alborada del gracioso, La vall茅e des cloches
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Stravinsky: Suite No 1
Stravinsky: Apollo
Ravel: La valse
Angela Hewitt (piano)
蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis
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