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Lili and Nadia Boulanger orchestral works

BBC SO Total Immersion: Lili and Nadia Boulanger

,Barbican Hall
James Gaffigan conducting

This Total Immersion event dedicated to sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger reaches its climax in a concert of some of their best-known works.

James Gaffigan, a passionate champion of Lili Boulanger’s music, conducts the BBCSO in a programme that includes all the composer’s major works – a programme that  gives just a taste of the original voice the world lost at her early death aged just 24. The evening includes not only Faust et Helene – the cantata with which Lili won the Prix de Rome – but also her final masterpiece, the brooding psalm-setting Du fond de l’abime . Pianist Alexandra Dariescu is the soloist for Nadia Boulanger’s dramatic Fantaisie variee.

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Programme

  • Lili Boulanger   Psaume 24
  • Lili Boulanger   Vielle prière bouddhique
  • Lili Boulanger   Faust et Hélène
  • Nadia Boulanger   Fantaisie variée for piano and orchestra
  • Lili Boulanger   Psaume 130: Du fond de l’âbime

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • James Gaffigan   conductor
  • Alexandra Dariescu   piano
  • Katarina Dalayman   soprano
  • James Way   tenor
  • Samuel Sakker   tenor
  • Benedict Nelson*   baritone
  • BBC Symphony Chorus  

*Please note that Kostas Smoriginas has had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. The BBC SO is grateful to Benedict Nelson for stepping in at short notice.

Free performance 6.45pm

The culmination of a BBC SO learning project

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