BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of classical orchestral music. This event, Prom 44: Debussy, Ravel & Boulanger, mark two major centenaries in this all-French programme. In the centenary of his death, Debussy is celebrated in the languorous beauty of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Nocturnes with their shifting, shimmering play of musical light.
Lili Boulanger, whose death in 1918 at the age of just 24 cut short a career of extraordinary promise, is represented by her powerful setting of Psalm 130 – a musical howl of grief composed at the height of the First World War.
Performers: Ludovic Morlot – Conductor, Justina Gringytė – Mezzo-Soprano, CBSO Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus.
