Prom 59: A French Fantasy – Boulanger, Fauré and Ravel

Prom 59: A French Fantasy – Boulanger, Fauré and Ravel

Royal Albert Hall

Stéphane Denève leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an evening of French music. Works by Lili Boulanger and Ravel frame Fauré’s elegant, consolatory Requiem and his incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande.

Programme

• Lili Boulanger




• Pie Jesu(4 mins)




• Gabriel Fauré




• Requiem(39 mins)




• INTERVAL




• Gabriel Fauré




• Pelleas and Melisande – suite(18 mins)




• Lili Boulanger




• Vieille prière bouddhique(7 mins)




• Maurice Ravel




• Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No. 2(18 mins)

Performers

• 
  

  Golda Schultz

  
  

  soprano

  
  


• 
  

  Laurence Kilsby

  
  

  tenor

  
  


• 
  

  Thomas Mole

  
  

  baritone

  
  



• BBC Symphony Chorus




• BBC Symphony Orchestra



• 
  

  Stéphane Denève

  
  

  conductor

  
  

Composers

• Lili Boulanger




• Gabriel Fauré




• Maurice Ravel