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Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2022

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Martyn Brabbins conducts the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky, Xenakis, Birtwistle and Ravel's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto with soloist Tom Borrow.

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins in Stravinsky, Xenakis, Birtwistle and Ravel's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto with soloist Tom Borrow.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Harrison Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Iannis Xenakis: Jonchaies

20.15
Interval: Gillian Moore joins Ian Skelly to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms.

20.35
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tom Borrow (piano)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Iannis Xenakis contemplated reeds in the wind; Stravinsky pictured a Russia before the dawn of civilisation. But Nature is unstoppable, and both composers unleashed forces beyond the imagination: riotous, explosive masterpieces from opposite ends of the 20th century, using supersized orchestras to redefine the limits of music itself. In Xenakis’s centenary year, Martyn Brabbins and the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra reap the whirlwind that grew from Stravinsky’s storm. Ravel’s gorgeous, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto appears like an oasis of calm before Jonchaies and The Rite of Spring – though with the β€˜astonishing’ (according to Bachtrack) ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow as soloist, it should be every bit as gripping. And to begin a summons by the late, much missed Harrison Birtwistle.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Sun 31 Jul 2022 19:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Sonance Severance 2000

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Concerto In G Major

    Performer: Tom Borrow. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude, Feux d'artifice

    Performer: Tom Borrow.

  • Iannis Xenakis

    Jonchaies

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    Summa

    Music Arranger: Eduard Wesly. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • William Byrd/Arvo Part: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • MDG.
    • 12.

  • Francisco Coll

    Violin Concerto: III. Phase

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.
    • Francisco Coll: Orchestral Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.

  • Julian Anderson

    Symphony

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite Of Spring

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    3 Movements from Petrushka

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin (Loure)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Jul 2022 19:30
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