Name: The Poem of Ecstasy – Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin
Start: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Admin

Instrumentalist

Kirill Gerstein

Piano

Conductor

Susanna Mälkki

London Symphony Orchestra

Others

London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra

The Poem of Ecstasy – Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

The Poem of Ecstasy – Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin: Nocturnes Debussy (+2 More)

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Nocturnes

Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Symphony No. 4, op. 54 ("The Poem of Ecstasy")

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Drift amid music of seductive illusion, by three turn-of-the-century composers.

The Programme 
‘It is pure music, conceived beyond the limits of reality, in the world of dreams,’ wrote a contemporary reviewer about Debussy’s Nocturnes. The first Nocturne conjures grey thunderclouds above the Seine, as a passing boat sounds its horn. The second is illuminated by a dazzling procession, and the third echoes with the voices of sirens, heard amid the moonlit waves of the sea.  

In Ravel’s dark, swaggering magic trick of a Piano Concerto, one hand playing comes to sound like two. And in Scriabin’s swirling, yearning symphonic poem, we move through fantasy to ecstasy.  

The Performers
Kirill Gerstein, a Spotlight Artist with the LSO in 2023/24, performs a remarkable feat of sleight-of-hand, while Susanna Mälkki and the LSO reveal the shining threads that tie these three works together. The London Symphony Chorus supplies enchanting song.

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