John McCabe
Joybox c7'
BBC commission: world premiere
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major 40'
interval
Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat 35'
Ravel
Boléro 15'
Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano
Antonio Márquez Company
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor
The world premiere of John McCabe's BBC commission Joybox opens a concert of music
inspired by or written for dance, from the Bohemian stamp and whirl of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to the slow-burning ostinato of Ravel's Boléro.
Mezzo-soprano Clara Mouriz and the flamenco dancers of the Antonio Márquez Company join conductor Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic in Falla's colourful Ballets Russes commission The Three-Cornered Hat, and the dancers also present a flamenco upbeat to Boléro.