The French composer Maurice Ravel created enchanted worlds – visions of exquisite elegance and sunlit rapture; of unbridled sensuality and the subtlest of colours. Today, in Ravel’s 150th anniversary year, a group of HK Phil musicians celebrates his imagination at its most unbounded. And from the blazing fiddles of Tzigane to the shimmering wonder of the Introduction and Allegro, this is music to dazzle the ears and ravish the senses. 

The concert runs for 70 minutes without intermission.

Harp Sylvain Blassel

Violin Wang Liang

Violin Gui Li

Viola Zhang Shuying

Cello Tae-Mi Song

Flute Josep Portella Orfila

Clarinet Lau Wai

Programme

Ravel (arr. Blassel) Pavane pour une infante défunte

Ravel String Quartet in F

Ravel Introduction and Allegro

Ravel (arr. Blassel) Tzigane

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is regarded as one of the leading orchestras in Asia. Presenting more than 150 concerts over a 44-week season, the HK Phil attracts more than 200,000 music lovers annually. The HK Phil won the prestigious UK classical music magazine Gramophone’s 2019 Orchestra of the Year Award – the first orchestra in Asia to receive this accolade.

Tarmo Peltokoski will become the HK Phil’s Music Director beginning in the 2026/27 season, after serving as Music Director Designate in 2025/26. Currently, Long Yu serves as Principal Guest Conductor, Lio Kuokman is Resident Conductor, and Daniele Gatti is Artistic Partner.

The HK Phil has flourished in the last two decades under Jaap van Zweden (Music Director, 2012–2024) and Edo de Waart (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, 2004–2012). The orchestra successfully completed a four-year journey through Wagner’s Ring Cycle, performing and recording one opera from the cycle annually from 2015 to 2018. The concert performances were well received, and the live Naxos recordings were praised by critics, and garnered the Gramophone Orchestra of the Year Award 2019.