Prom 25: London Sinfonietta July 31, 2007

The Music Director of Paris's Ensemble Intercontemporain makes her Proms debut with the UK's leading new music ensemble. Boulez's characteristic revisiting of earlier works has resulted in a substantially expanded second revision of his Dérive 2 for 11 players. Birtwistle's Neruda Madrigales, a BBC co-commission first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2005, is a melancholic yet sensuous setting of the Chilean poet's Ode to the Double Autumn.

Pierre Boulez
Dérive 2 (1988/2006) (40 mins)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Neruda Madrigales (BBC co-commission: London premiere) (32 mins)

There will be no interval

BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
Susanna Mälkki conductor