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He’s been called a “musical omnivore” but anyone who’s experienced the BBC SSO’s former Chief Conductor (and current Creative Partner) Ilan Volkov knows that he’s an artist who sees music differently – and turns every concert into a voyage of discovery.
Today, he conducts a programme with a French flavour, and with Volkov’s insights the bittersweet beauty of Ravel’s waltzes – like the luminous colours of Debussy’s ravishing Nocturnes – will sound fresher than ever. But we open with a different (and eye-opening) angle on French music: a delightful, rarely-heard symphony from the decade that the BBC SSO was founded. And pianist Nicolas Hodges dives deep into the visionary sonic world of Maurice Ohana, the Casablanca-born composer with a voice that was entirely his own.
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“The ideal programme makes something suddenly bubble up, so that people feel a new intensity they maybe haven’t known before” says Ilan Volkov, who invites us to discover Elsa Barraine’s 1938 composition from the BBC SSO’s founding decade. A classmate and lifelong friend of Olivier Messiaen, Barraine carved her own unique path in the mid-20th century French music scene.
