Martha Argerich plays Ravel

The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra performs music by Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Beethoven, with pianist Martha Argerich and narrator Annie Dutoit-Argerich.

To 21st-century ears, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 can feel like the most modern and daring of them all. Anticipating musical developments a hundred years away, it was the first symphonic work to build a journey primarily from rhythmic rather than melodic blocks. No work of the period can match the wild dances, insistent rhythmic propulsion and infectious joy of Beethoven’s Seventh – but one piece from the following century that certainly can, is Ravel’s jazz-infused piano concerto of 120 years later.

The legendary Martha Argerich is the soloist in Ravel’s electrifyingly slick and slinky piano concerto after Annie Dutoit-Argerich narrates the greatest musical menagerie of them all, Saint-Saëns’s beastly and enchanting Carnival of the Animals for 2 pianos, narrator and orchestra.

Under 14s must be accompanied by someone aged 16 or over.

Programme

Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major M. 82
Interval
Beethoven Symphony no. 7

Performers

Martha Argerich piano
Annie Dutoit-Argerich narrator
The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
Marios Papadopoulos conductor/piano