Ravel
Mother Goose – ballet 29'
Jukka Tiensuu
Voice verser 17'
UK premiere
interval
Szymanowski
Songs of a Fairy Princess 20'
with three additional songs orchestrated by Sakari Oramo: UK premiere
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade 42'
Anu Komsi soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Sakari Oramo returns together with soprano, Anu Komsi, to perform Szymanowski's atmospheric Songs of a Fairy Princess.
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade sees the orchestra turn storyteller and the curtain rises with Ravel's deftly coloured fairy-tale ballet.