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ѿý Proms: Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO

Live at the ѿý Proms: The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina with Ravel Shéhérazade and Debussy La Mer.

Live at the ѿý Proms: The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina with Ravel Shéhérazade and Debussy La Mer.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Sibelius: The Oceanides 11’
Tippett: The Rose Lake 29’

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Interval
The pianist and music director Allyson Devenish joins Martin with her personal recommendations of forthcoming ѿý Proms.

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Ravel Shéhérazade 17’
Debussy La mer 23’

Aigul Akhmetshina mezzo-soprano

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor

Waves play and waterfalls plunge, the still surface of a lake reflects the midday sun and an ocean duets with the wind in a concert with saltwater on its breath.

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures. The mercurial moods of Debussy’s La mer and rolling waters of Sibelius’s The Oceanides find answer in the gentle rolling harbour of Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade, performed – in a Proms debut – by mezzo- soprano Aigul Akhmetshina.

Tippett’s last major work takes us inland to discover a glowing ‘lake full of song’.

Release date:

2 hours, 29 minutes

On radio

Sun 10 Aug 2025 19:30

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Aug 2025 19:30

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