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Prom 61: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Date Monday 31 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
Both Sibelius and Duparc stopped composing decades before their deaths – three in the Finn's case, five in the Frenchman's. The seven symphonies Sibelius left, however, securely place him among the greatest symphonists of the 20th century. Duparc left just 13 songs, yet each is a gem of textual subtlety and melodic inspiration; lustrous-toned Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená sings her own selection.
Ravel's pastoral ballet Daphnis et Chloé – commissioned by Diaghilev in 1909, the year he met Stravinsky – was based on an ancient erotic novel; the Second Suite begins with a sunrise and ends in an orgy.
- Sibelius Symphony No.1 in E minor (40 mins)
- interval
- Duparc
- L'invitation au voyage (5 mins)
- Extase (orch. Pierre de Breville) (4 mins)
- Le manoir de Rosemonde (3 mins)
- Chanson triste (4 mins)
- Phidylé (5 mins)
- Ravel Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No.2 (18 mins)
- Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Mariss Jansons conductor
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I did not share the audience's enthusiasm for tonight's performance of the five Duparc songs. Magdalena Kozena's French is not good enough, the vowel sounds
poor to bad, and perhaps because of that she pushed the phrases instead of floating with them. L'Invitation au Voyage and Chanson Triste, especially, sounded really laboured. A great disappointment.
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I went to this and the next night's concerts. I couldn't quite understand why this one was less well attended or why neither was televised. The Sibelius performance taught me things about the work I didn't know ( though I listen to the seven symphonies more than most works ) and was totally gripping. The orchestra and Janssons' conducting were a revelation - you really saw Sibelius sorting through the material ' God had thrown down' and working towards resolutions. The songs came over better listening again on radio than in the hall, I thought. To jump the gun the next night was packed and if anything more revelatory. The Haydon came to life and the Mighty Tenth - well, it was engrossing, shocking in the way it's meant to be. This conductor/orchestra's ability to pay attention to detail yet serve the emotional force of the music is for me, an artistic experience of the very highest order - and a word for the woodwind in the 10th: absolutely magnificent ( that's two words actually ). Highlights of this season for me.Can wehave them back doing Sibelius's 5th please.
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