Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio [email protected] French May

Celebrating Le French May’s Silver Jubilee, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra) makes its Hong Kong debut, under the music direction of Mikko Franck. They are joined by a trio of young soloists for Beethoven’s ecstatic Triple Concerto, before bringing the authentic sound of France to Hong Kong, in Debussy’s famous evocation of The sea and Ravel’s exquisite musical telling of fairy tales in his Suite Mother Goose.

Beethoven, Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56
Allegro
Largo
Rondo alla polacca

Debussy, La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre
(The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra)

1. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From dawn to noon on the sea)
2. Jeux de vagues (Play of the Waves)
3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the wind and the sea)

Ravel, Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite

1. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty)
2. Petit Poucet (Little Tom Thumb)
3. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes (Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas)
4. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête (Conversation of Beauty and the Beast)
5. Le jardin féerique (The Fairy Garden)