BBC Radio 3’s Friday Night is Music Night and the BBC Concert Orchestra are off to France. Expect Gallic chic, champagne melodies and southern sun– all without leaving Alexandra Palace Theatre!

Friday Night is Music Night: A French Fantasy

Alexandra Palace Theatre

When Sergey Rachmaninov composed his evocative Études-Tableaux (‘Study-Pictures’) for piano, he kept his inspirations to himself, hoping that audiences would imagine their own pictures instead. Almost twenty years later, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi set out to orchestrate a selection, Rachmaninov divulged some of the images that had come to mind when writing the pieces: a fair, the sea, children’s tales, and marches.

Elena Schwarz conducts Scriabin and Rachmaninov

BBC Maida Vale Studios

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