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The Boulanger Sisters choral music

BBC SO Total Immersion: Lili and Nadia Boulanger

,St Giles' Cripplegate
BBC Singers group stairs

This programme pairs the startlingly beautiful and harmonically daring choral works of Lili Boulanger with music by her sister Nadia.

This BBC Singers concert offers a rare opportunity to compare the musical voices of two sisters – one a Prix de Rome-winning composer, the other best known today as a pedagogue, teacher to Philip Glass, Aaron Copland and Elliott Carter, among others.

Lili’s expansive gestures and bold harmonic palette – all the more striking when you consider that they are the product of a composer still in her 20s – are showcased in the blazing Hymn au soleil and the delicate sensuality of Les Sirenes, while Nadia’s more contained musical language is at its best in miniature Maeterlinck-setting Cantique and immaculate song-cycle Les heures claires.

Tagged with: Classical music BBC Singers 2018–19 BBC SO Total Immersion: Lili and Nadia Boulanger

Programme

  • Lili Boulanger   Les sirens
  • Lili Boulanger   Sous-bois
  • Nadia Boulanger   Cantique
  • Lili Boulanger   Hymne au soleil
  • Nadia Boulanger/Raoul Pugno   Les heures claires
  • Lili Boulanger   La source
  • Nadia Boulanger   Allons voir sur le lac d’argent

Performers

  • BBC Singers  

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Fore St, London
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