Sound Frontiers: The Philharmonia plays Stravinsky
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in an all-Stravinsky concert, with narration by acclaimed French actress Pauline Cheviller. Recorded yesterday at the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre. Photo (c) Camilla Greenwell
Igor Stravinsky: Orpheus
Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
8.25: Interval
8.45: Igor Stravinsky: Perséphone
Andrew Staples (tenor)
Pauline Cheviller (narrator)
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
This concert in the Philharmonia's major Stravinsky series Myths and Rituals explores his fascination with classical mythology. Music of great subtlety and exquisite beauty, Apollon musagète and Orpheus sit alongside Stravinsky's alluring melodrama based on the Homeric hymn to the goddess Persephone, retold in collaboration with the French novelist and poet André Gide, here narrated by Pauline Cheviller.
