The Poem of Ecstasy – Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin by Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, søn. 03 dec. 2023, Fra (2023/2023), Dirigent Susanna Mälkki, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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.