BBC Proms 2018 Prom 16 Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 16 Stravinsky, Debussy and Wagner (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder with the Hallé Choir and Youth Choir plus soloists Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany, with music by Debussy and Stravinsky.

Sophie Bevan and Anna Stéphany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused, mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle élue.

Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhäuser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city.

Tonight's second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which tonight's symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Redmond

01. Wagner - Tannhäuser - overture
01i. General introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Proms 16
02. Debussy - La damoiselle élue
02i. Introduction to Debussy’s La damoiselle élue
03. Stravinsky - Song of the Nightingale
03i. Introduction to Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale
04. Stravinsky - The Firebird - suite (1945 version)

Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Choir (female voices)
Hallé Youth Choir (female voices)
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)


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Broadcast: 26 July 2018