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Thu 30 Aug 2012 19:30 BBC Radio 3
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BBC Proms, 2012 Season, Prom 63 Episode 1 of 2
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle return to the Proms for the first of two concerts with an evening of wide-ranging sonic adventure.
In the first half they present three different approaches to the experience of calm, firstly in Ligeti's slowly shifting sound-clouds, then with Wagner's sustained stillness through to Sibelius's most formidable and bleak evocation of a frozen landscape. The French second half is, in contrast, all about movement and dance. Tennis is not the only game played in Debussy's flirtatious ballet Jeux, while Ravel's suite, drawn from his famous ballet begins with a sunrise and ends in an orgy.
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude, Act 1
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Simon Rattle (conductor).
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