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Proms 2018 Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel & Berio

Prom 65
Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel & Berio
19:00 Fri 31 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall
Semyon Bychkov and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ SO present three 20th-century classics. The primal rhythms of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring meet ballroom sophistication in Ravel’s La Valse, while Berio’s Sinfonia is a gorgeous patchwork of musical fragments.
Semyon Bychkov and the Â鶹ԼÅÄ SO present three 20th-century classics. The primal rhythms of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring meet ballroom sophistication in Ravel’s La Valse, while Berio’s Sinfonia is a gorgeous patchwork of musical fragments.

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Berio's Sinfonia - an introduction
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Berio's Sinfonia - an introduction
Hannah Conway with critic Ivan Hewett and composer William Mival examine Berio's Sinfonia
Sep '18Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Three 20th-century classics explore the fantastical beginnings of modern music. Semyon Bychkov leads the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra in a journey that contrasts the pre-war, avant-garde provocations of Stravinsky’s infamous ballet The Rite of Spring with the darker post-war reflections of Ravel’s La valse, also commissioned by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes.

At the centre of the programme is Berio’s extraordinary Sinfonia. Dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, it is a technical tour de force for orchestra and eight solo voices that gathers together familiar fragments of classical music (including nods to both the Ravel and Stravinsky works) to create something bewilderingly brilliant and utterly, joyously original.

Image: Semyon Bychkov © Peter Adamik

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