Lionel Bringuier & Nelson Freire: Live at the Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

Leading Chopin interpreter Nelson Freire is the soloist in Chopin’s lyrical and brilliant Second Piano Concerto. On the podium the young French conductor Lionel Bringuier makes his Proms debut conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and gives a sizzling performance of Roussel’s Symphony No.3 and of Ravel’s score for the ballet 'Daphnis et Chloé' - Suite No 2.

Chopin wrote his concerto at the age of 19 while crazily in love with an opera singer, but it's the work itself which is the object of adoration for soloist Nelson Freire who describes himself as having something of a 'crush' on the piece after first hearing it as a teenager.

The three other works on the programme chart French music over a century of changing musical tastes, beginning in 1844 with Berlioz's vivid evocation of a swashbuckling pirate adventure in his overture 'Le corsaire'. By 1912 the tides of modernism influenced Ravel's lavishly scored, pastoral ballet Daphnis and Chloë, with its famous opening soundscape of dawn breaking over the forest canopy, and by the 1930s Roussel's Third Symphony reflected the trends of neo-classicism.

Треклист:
Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridice): Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
Roussel: Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 42