Name: Prom 7: Faure, Stravinsky and Poulenc
Start: 2016-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Tenor

Julien Behr

Conductor

Marc Minkowski

Soprano

Julie Fuchs

Ténor

soprano

Others

BBC Singers

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Prom 7: Faure, Stravinsky and Poulenc

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 7: Faure, Stravinsky and Poulenc: Shylock, Op.57 Fauré (+2 More)

Public

Private

Shylock, Op.57

Pulcinella

Stabat Mater

Approved

Paris was at the centre of the quest for new clarity and order in music around the start of the 20th century, and tonight’s Prom presents some of the most delicious fruits of that quest. Our Shakespeare anniversary celebrations continue with a suite drawn from Fauré’s incidental music for The Merchant of Venice.

In his ballet score Pulcinella, Stravinsky dusted down Baroque melodies then believed to be by Pergolesi, lending them an ear-teasing bite.

Spare simplicity and urbane wit usually meet in the works of Poulenc; but in his Stabat mater – a portrait of the mother of Christ beholding her crucified son – Poulenc finds a mode of disarming tenderness and contemplation.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ensemble