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John Wilson conducts Sinfonia of London in music by Strauss, Bernstein and Ravel.

Hannah French presents, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Leonard Bernstein: Serenade

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Interval: Hannah French is joined by the director, lyricist and composer Jeremy Sams to find out more about the paradoxical life of Maurice Ravel. Famously guarded in his private life, he wrote music of brilliance and passion.

Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe

Sinfonia of London
John Wilson (conductor)

Critics have praised their Proms performances as ‘breathtaking’, ‘blazing’ and ‘simply as good as it gets’. Now John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London double down with a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces. Love is the theme of a Prom that opens with history's greatest seducer, Don Juan, in Strauss’s swashbuckling tone-poem and closes with the sensuous, diaphanous textures of Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe. At the centre is one of Bernstein’s most lyrical orchestral works. James Ehnes is the soloist in Serenade – a violin concerto by another name that muses on, and interrogates, the nature of love itself.