Prom 15: Mozart, Ravel & Jonathan Dove

28 Jul 2014, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Mon 28 Jul 2014 Next Event

19:30 Mon 28 Jul 2014 Royal Albert Hall

Turbulent mythical love meets poised Classical elegance in a concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra that sets Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 alongside Ravel’s sensuous ballet score Daphnis and Chloe. Launching us far beyond either Mozart’s Vienna or Ravel’s Paris, Jonathan Dove’s new orchestral work Gaia Theory explores the idea of life on our planet evolving alongside the environment.

Programme

- - Jonathan Dove
  - Gaia Theory(20 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major(27 mins)
- - Frédéric Chopin
  - Waltz in A minor (Posthumous) B. 150, kk IVb, No. 11(3 mins)(encore)
- - interval
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Daphnis et Chloé(60 mins)

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About this event

Turbulent mythical love and poised Classical elegance come together in a concert that shifts from Jonathan Dove’s large-scale orchestral work Gaia Theory to the intimacy of the Viennese salon in Mozart’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 23.

Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe is rich in all the colours and rhythms of turn-of-the-century Paris – a masterpiece that announced its composer as a force with which to be reckoned.