Name: Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina And Ravel
Start: 2024-11-14
End: 2024-11-14
Location: Royal Festival Hall

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Rebecca Chan

Violin I

David López Ibánez

Violin II

Sylvain Séailles

Viola

Ella Rundle

Cello

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina And Ravel

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Royal Festival Hall

Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina And Ravel: La oración del torero, Op.34 Turina, J. (+1 More)

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La oración del torero, Op.34

String Quartet in F Major, M. 35

Sushant Karmakar

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Four Philharmonia string players give a free performance of Ravel’s String Quartet, widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of the chamber music repertoire.

By turns lively, lyrical, contemplative and stormy, Ravel’s masterpiece requires great technical and expressive skill – and our string players have plenty of both. If you’re new to French music, this is a fantastic place to start.

Spanish composer Joaquín Turina took what he admired about the music of Debussy and Ravel (who he met while studying in Paris) and gave it a distinctive Spanish, folkloric flavour. He gave a vivid description of the moment that inspired The Bullfighter’s Prayer: ‘During an afternoon of bullfighting in the Madrid arena … I saw my work. Behind a small door, there was a chapel, filled with incense, where toreadors went right before facing death [and] in front of this poor altar… prayed to God to protect their lives.’

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Philharmonia Chamber Players: Turina And Ravel by Turina, J., Ravel, Thu 14 Nov 2024, From (2024/2024), Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

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