倫敦巴里

ちょっと油断したらＢＢＣプロムズでまたもやディーリアスだ。今週火曜日のプロ。なんとシャルル・デュトワの指揮なのだという！

Prom 43: Delius, Saint-Saëns & Tchaikovsky
on Tuesday 14 August 2012
7.00pm – c. 9.15pm
at Royal Albert Hall

Charles Dutoit, noted interpreter of French music, begins with
the Parisian memories of an Englishman abroad: anniversary
composer Frederick Delius was particularly fond of the city and
his unfairly neglected nocturne for orchestra has not been heard
here since 1984.

Benjamin Grosvenor, who hit the headlines in 2004, aged 11,
when he won the keyboard final of BBC Young Musician of the
Year, made sensational Proms debut appearances last year. He
returns in a Gallic concerto for which he has a special affinity.
Finally to St Petersburg for Tchaikovsky’s rousing but equivocal
triumph.

Delius:
Paris (The Song of a Great City)
Saint-Saëns:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor*
-Encore-
Saint-Saëns (transcr. L. Godowsky):
The Swan ~ The Carnival of the Animals*
=INTERVAL=
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 5 in E minor

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano*
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor

世紀末の巴里はディーリアスにとって青春の都。紅灯の巷を徘徊し、幾多の哀歓にもどっぷり浸った。無頼の芸術家たち（筆頭はポール・ゴーギャンだ）と交わり、おまけに命取りの業病にまで罹った。この曲にはその想い出の一切が横溢する。ダンサブルな曲想は先日ここで聴いた「シナラ」の一部とも共通するものだ。そうそう、あの「シナラ」をオン・デマンドで聴ける猶予期間も残りあと半日位の筈だ。