Radio 3 in Concert
New Perspectives: the BBC Phiharmonic play Ravel and Shostakovich.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 13.01.2017
Ravel: Noctuelles (arr. Stucky
Oiseaux tristes (arr. C. Matthews
La vallée des cloches (arr. C. Matthews) World Premiere
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
encore: Debussy - Arabesque No 1
8.15: Interval
8.35: Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor
BBC Philharmonic
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Nicholas Collon, conductor
When Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein lost his right arm in the First World War, he asked Ravel to write him a piece he could play with his left hand alone. The remarkable result will be played tonight by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, a BBC Philharmonic favourite and the work's most brilliant living champion. The three recent orchestrations of pieces from Ravel's piano cycle Miroirs include the world-premiere of a BBC Philharmonic commission. Alongside these, Nicholas Collon unleashes Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, a wartime work of such immense power that the Soviet authorities ultimately banned it.
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неожиданно хорошее исполнение 8-й Шостаковича.
