Takemitsu
Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode 8’
Debussy, orch. Caplet
Estampes – Pagodes 8’
Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole 16’
interval
Takemitsu
Green 6’
Sarasate
‘Carmen’ Fantasy 12’
Ravel
Tzigane 10’
interval
Toshio Hosokawa
Cloud and Light 17’
UK premiere
Debussy
La mer 25’
Akiko Suwanai violin
Mayumi Miyata sho
Orchestre National de Lyon
Jun Märkl conductor
A three-part Prom tracing musical cross-fertilisations between East and West, and between France and Spain. Takemitsu’s Ceremonial showcases the Japanese sho (mouth organ) but the key influence on his Green was Debussy – who had himself used oriental scales and sonorities in ‘Pagodes’ and La mer. The sho reappears in Hosokawa’s recent Cloud and Light. Works by Bizet and Ravel complete the programme.