Synopsis

Presented by Catherine Bott

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by the young French conductor Lionel Bringiuer, winner of the Besancon Young Conductors Competition in 2005, and still only in his early twenties. He is the Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon in Spain. Their programme opens with Metaboles by the veteran French composer Henri Dutilleux, an enchanting work in which the germ of musical ideas are introduced in one movement and developed in the next.

Angela Hewitt's understanding of early dance informs her captivating performances of Baroque repertoire. Her revelatory interpretations of Couperin's solo keyboard pieces here provide the perfect complement to Ravel's spirited orchestral version of Le Tombeau de Couperin and his jazz-tinged Piano Concerto in G. The concert is rounded off with Stravinsky's scintillating Firebird suite for Les ballets russes.

Angela Hewitt (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conductor Lionel Bringuier

Dutilleux: Metaboles
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Couperin: Le tic-toc-choc;
Les baricades misterieuses
Ravel: Piano concerto in G
Stravinsky: Firebird suite

Followed by music from the Leopold String Trio, from the second of their concerts recorded at Wigmore Hall, London last September, of the complete Beethoven String Trios.

Beethoven: String Trio in D, Op.9 no.2
Leopold String Trio.

Tchaikovsky Why? Op.6 no.5
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA 66617 Tr21