LA Phil Presents Ravel’s “Mother Goose”
The LA Phil is presenting a program full of French master composers culminating in the title performance of Ravel’s “Mother Goose” with a visual installation to accompany the magical piece!
The program will be conducted by the LA Phil’s current Pricipal Conductor, Finnish orchestra conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and along with “Mother Goose” will feature a solo organ concerto as well as Swedish soprano, Camilla Tilling. Lastly, This concert will include a pre-concert talk each night, 1-hour before the performance (7:00 PM) with Christopher Russell (conductor and associate professor at Azusa Pacific University). These pre-concert talks are highly interesting and provide great insight and depth to the programs for a richer experience.
CITY OF LIGHT: Mother Goose, with installation
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Friday, February 12, 8:00pm
Saturday, February 13, 8:00pm
Sunday, February 14, 2:00pm
Artists
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Vincent Dubois, organ
Camilla Tilling, soprano
Ars Electronica Futurelab, installation artists
Program
Tanguy: Affettuoso (c. 11 minutes)
Poulenc: Organ Concerto (c. 20 minutes)
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Dutilleux: Correspondances (c. 15 minutes)
Ravel: Mother Goose, with installation (c. 30 minutes)
About This Performance
The title of Henri Dutilleux’ song cycle suggests both the correspondence between sound and color (Dutilleux was a marvelous orchestral colorist, and alludes to Baudelaire’s famous poem about synaesthesia) and correspondence as communication (the main texts are from actual letters). Salonen has long championed the music of the late French composer, and when he performed the cycle with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Dutilleux was so impressed that he suggested a recording (which Salonen and that orchestra recently made for DG) and composed a new finale for it.
Come for: Salonen’s City of Light mini-festival begins with this tantalizing mix spanning a century of French music.
And more: A newly commissioned installation will surround the performance of Ravel’s delicate and magical Mother Goose to close this program.
