BBC NOW - Romeo & Juliet

DESIRE · LOSS · DESTINY Martyn Brabbins - Conductor David Childs - Euphonium Debussy Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune" (Afternoon of a Faun) Paul Mealor Euphonium Concerto Akimenko Angel;Poem Nocturne Interval Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Love in all its colours, desire, tenderness, loss, and fate, runs through this programme, brought to life by conductor Martyn Brabbins. Debussy's Prélude à l'après‑midi d'un faune opens the evening with shimmering orchestral colour that hovers between waking and dream. Inspired by Mallarmé's poem, its sinuous lines and floating harmonies evoke the intoxication of longing and the fragile beauty of moments suspended in time. From this dream world we turn to more personal expressions of love and loss. We welcome David Childs as soloist in Paul Mealor's Euphonium Concerto, a work drawn from a Gaelic tale of lost love: a fisherman who never returns, and the