RBC Symphony Orchestra with Karen Ní Bhroin
RBC French Season 2024–25
The Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
£15
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RBC Symphony Orchestra with Karen Ní Bhroin
Meyer arr. Berlioz Marche Marocaine
Satie orch. Debussy Gymnopédie No.1
Ravel Piano Concerto in D for left hand
Bonis Trois femmes de légende
Ravel La valse
As part of Timbre and Colour in French Music – a Symposium.
Part of the RBC French Music Season
One of Ireland’s foremost young conductors, Karen Ní Bhroin has been making a name for herself, building a relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall’s Christmas concert and returning to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Manchester Camerata.
She conducts the RBC’s flagship orchestra in a concert that begins with two orchestrations, by Berlioz and Debussy, of piano works by Leopold de Meyer and Eric Satie. Mel Bonis’s three Femmes de légende focus on famous female characters – Salome, Ophelia and Cleopatra. These, too, were written first for piano or piano duet as part of a set of seven. Two works by Ravel also feature. First, his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by the concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein who had suffered the loss of his right arm during the First World War. And finally, La valse, which begins as an elegant Viennese dance that gradually swirls and spirals into chaos.
Photo © Marshall Light Studio
Running time approx. one hour and fifteen minutes
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Boulez: Sur incises
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Pre-CBSO Showcase - RBC Symphony Orchestra
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Mon coeur soupire
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Discovering Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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Poulenc: La voix humaine
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RBC Chamber Choir
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