Philharmonia Orchestra: Sokhiev conducts The Rite of Spring

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Sokhiev conducts The Rite of Spring

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 15 Apr 2010 7:30pm

Tugan Sokhiev

conductor

Yevgeny Sudbin

piano

Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Easter Festival Overture

Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 2

Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring

Also this evening :

Music of Today: Richard Baker

“One day, when I was finishing the last pages of the Firebird in St Petersburg, I had a fleeting vision… I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propagate the god of spring.” Three years later on 29 May 1913 Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring received its première in Paris, a date made famous by one of the most notorious riots in musical history. The work opened the doors to the 20th-century and has become an icon of modernism thanks to the brutal, exhilarating dissonances and to the complex rhythms whose ruthless momentum the work derives its unique power.