Mark Wigglesworth

Bertrand Chamayou

BBC Philharmonic

2025 will be a year of spectacular Francophile birthday celebrations for Maurice Ravel,
but first, we pay tribute to 20th century revolutionary Pierre Boulez. rituel – in memoriam Bruno Maderna is a dazzling canvas of sound and colour, raw and muscular.

After our starter of Boulez, we gaze through the soft-focus musical lens of Maurice Ravel. There’s a nod to the past in the Pavane pour une infante défunte, plus a birthday treat world premiere by Kenneth Hesketh, Sites auriculaires, arranged for orchestra. It’s not all soft and serene either; Ravel was a composer of the jazz age, and a sense of energy and pulsating rhythms lie at the beating heart of his G major Piano Concerto.

Daphnis and Chloé