Organization

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Martin Helmchen

Piano

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

La Mer

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

La Mer: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 ("The Classical") Prokofiev (+3 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 ("The Classical")

Burleske, TrV 145

The Oceanides Op. 73

The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra, L. 109

Approved

About this performance

High spirits and the high seas.

Debussy dreamed of being a sailor, and when he composed La mer he worried that he hadn’t done justice to the beauty of the sea. Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk disagrees, and Debussy’s symphonic seascape is a gorgeous complement to Sibelius’s musical vision of a sunlit Mediterranean. First, though, things get frisky with two young composers in a hurry: Prokofiev’s delightfully irreverent ‘Classical’ Symphony and Richard Strauss’s uproarious Burleske. Soloist Martin Helmchen is a pianist who’s not afraid to take risks, and this is definitely music to make you sit up.

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La Mer by Prokofiev, Strauss, Sibelius, Debussy, From (2024/2024), Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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