Ravel's Boléro

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Image courtesy of L'auditori.

Ludovic Morlot conducts a repertoire that gives real prominence to the members of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC).

The concert opens with the orchestration of the piano piece Suburbis by Frederic Mompou, which translates into music the soundscape of a stroll around Barcelona’s Montjuïc Park in the early 20th century, followed by Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 1 in D Major, with concertmaster Vlad Stanculeasa, a member of the orchestra, as soloist.

The next piece also features one of the OBC’s musicians in the solo flute role of Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. The evening highlights each of the orchestra’s sections in turn. Maurice Ravel’s famous, iconic Boléro, which closes the program, is preceded by the Barcelona premiere of Oliver Knussen’s unfinished Cleveland Pictures, a piece that illustrates in music seven artworks conserved in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Program

• Frederic Mompou: Suburbis (Suburbs) (Orch. Manuel Rosenthal) (1936) 14′
• Serguei Prokófiev: Violin Concert No. 2 in G major op.63 (1935) 26′
• Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), L 86 (1894) 11′
• Oliver Knussen: Cleveland Pictures (2003-2009) 18′ – National premiere
• Maurice Ravel: Boléro (1928) 15′

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