BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Perth Piano Sundays - La Mer
Debussy - Nocturnes*
Ravel - Piano Concerto for the left hand
Debussy - Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune
Debussy - La Mer
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor
Joaquin Achucarro, piano
*Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices
'I have slandered the sea' wrote Claude Debussy. 'Today it is beautiful enough to defy all comparisons'.
Yet 100 years after his death in 1918, Debussy's La Mer is surely the most poetic seascape ever painted for an orchestra, the work of a composer whose quiet genius turned music into an art of limitless expressive subtlety.
This centenary celebration opens with Nocturnes - Impressionist paintings, transformed into ravishing sound - and includes the Prelude whose unprecedented sensuality scandalised Belle Epoque Paris. But there's darkness as well as light: Thomas Dausgaard joins Joaquin Achucarro in the brooding concerto that Debussy's compatriot Ravel created for a pianist who'd lost an arm in the Great War.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Formed in December 1935 by Scottish composer and conductor Ian Whyte, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is recognised as one of the UK's leading…
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