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Debussy's Faun and Stravinsky's Firebird

The ѿý Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roderick Cox with works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Lyatoshinsky. Violinist Ilya Gringolts joins them to premiere Wennäkoski's Prosoidia.

The ѿý Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roderick Cox with works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Lyatoshinsky. Violinist Ilya Gringolts joins them to premiere Wennäkoski's Prosoidia.

A sultry flute, a shower of sparks, a flash of light and a sensuous, sumptuous wave of pure emotion. In the years before World War One, Debussy and Stravinsky transformed the way we listen: inventing musical colours that dazzled, startled and seduced. Debussy’s ravishing Prélude and Stravinsky’s Firebird open and close a concert filled with fantastic stories and sounds. Take Lotta Wennäkoski’s new violin concerto Prosoidia, for example. The composer imagines music as a wordless conversation – and if any violinist can make it talk, it’s the phenomenal Ilya Gringolts. Roderick Cox conducts, and shares another work that speaks more potently than any words: Grazhyna, a musical tale of courage and struggle from Ukraine’s greatest 20th century composer, Boris Lyatoshinsky.

Live from the Barbican Hall, presented by Martin Handley

Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Lotta Wennäkoski: Prosoidia (ѿý Co-Commission and World Premiere)*
Boris Lyatoshinsky: Grazhyna, Op.58
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)

Ilya Gringolts (violin)*
ѿý Symphony Orchestra
Roderick Cox (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
  • Lotta Wennäkoski

    Prosoidia - Concerto

    Performer: Ilya Gringolts. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Le rappel des oiseaux

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La poule

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
  • Henri Dutilleux

    Blackbird

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Petites esquisses d'oiseaux - No.1 Le Rouge-gorge

    Performer: Yvonne Loriod.
  • Amy Beach

    Hermit Thrush at Morn Op.92 No.2

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons - March, Song of the Lark

    Performer: Yefim Bronfman.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition - Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
  • Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshynsky

    Grazhyna Op.58

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - Suite

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.
  • Erik Satie

    Quatre ogives

    Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • Philips.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Nov 2023 19:30