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Jader Bignamini conducts the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra

Jader Bignamini conducts the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra in French music: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Poulenc’s Gloria, with the Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus, plus music by Camille Pépin.

Jader Bignamini conducts the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra in French music: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Poulenc’s Gloria, with the Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus, plus music by Camille Pépin.

‘Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium…’ Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is the musical head-trip to end all head-trips, a no-holds-barred phantasmagoria for an enormous orchestra.

And that’s not even the half of it, in a concert that features the massed voices of the Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus in Poulenc’s barnstorming Gloria, and which opens with Camille Pépin’s visionary, ravishing Les Eaux célestes. Sky gods, lovers, a celestial river and the cowherd of the stars: it’s hard to imagine a better counterpart for Berlioz’s spectacular sonic imagination than the UK premiere of this symphonic retelling of an ancient Chinese myth. Prepare to be transported….

Recorded at the Barbican on Friday 19th April 2024. Presented by Martin Handley

Camille Pépin: Les Eaux célestes (UK premiere)
Francis Poulenc: Gloria

Interval

Hector Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique Op.14

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Jader Bignamini (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

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Thu 2 May 2024 19:30
Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Camille Pépin

    Les Eaux célestes (The Celestial Waters)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jader Bignamini.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Choir: Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jader Bignamini.

  • Camille Pépin

    Gris-brume

    Performer: Olivia Gay. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid.
    • Fuga Libera.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Suite Le Voyageur Sans Bagages for Clarinet, Violin and Piano Op.157b

    Performer: Ludmila Peterková. Performer: Gabriela Demeterová. Performer: Marketa Cibulkova.
    • Supraphon.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jader Bignamini.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    3 Caprices Op.33 (no.2 in E major)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Mendelssohn: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Naive.
    • 012.

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 May 2024 19:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 3