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Music History According to Marcel Proust

  • Royal Academy of Music Marylebone Road London, England United Kingdom (map)

Two pieces by Royal Academy lecturer Alex Hills exploring the music featured in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, programmed alongside 20th-century French chamber music.

The culmination of a collaboration with University College London philosopher Tom Stern, engaging with the ideas of time, memory and history, as well as musical sources that inspired Proust.

Alex Hills - Misremembrances
Chaminade arr Skaila Kanga - Concertino
Duruflé - Prélude, Récitatif et Variations
Tailleferre - Image
Ravel - Introduction et Allegro
Alex Hills - Septet for 11 players (world premiere)*

Students of the Royal Academy of Music
Enyi Okpara, Conductor*

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