BBC Proms 2016 - Boulez - clat

Prom 64: Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle - Boulez and Mahler , , Royal Albert Hall Rattle pairs Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with Éclat, a work written in 1965 by the legendary French composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez, who died earlier this year. Programme Pierre Boulez Éclat (10 mins) Performers Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor About This Event Sir Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic to the Proms for two concerts, the first falling on the day the festival commemorates the towering genius that was the late Pierre Boulez. Here Boulez’s kaleidoscopic Éclat forms a prelude to perhaps Gustav Mahler’s most radical symphony, a work in which his musical imagination stormed new territories in its fierce harmonies and wild scoring. In the symphony’s celebrated ‘Night Music’ serenades – eerie yet strangely calming nocturnes for orchestra, one hinging on a gently strumming guitar and mandolin – Ma