Philharmonia Orchestra: Salonen conducts in London

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Salonen conducts in London

Thu 30 May 2013, 7:30pm

Only 9 tickets per concert can be bought online. To purchase 10 tickets or more at our Group Rate, please call the Philharmonia Orchestra Box Office on freephone +44 (0)800 652 6717

Tonight’s programme marks the centenary (29 May 1913) of one of the most famous premieres in musical history: Stravinsky’s primitivist ballet The Rite of Spring. Showered throughout by a torrential hail of farmyard noises from the gallery, the whole thing ended in uproar with the young conductor, Pierre Monteux, and his musicians fleeing for their lives. Puccini, who was in the Paris audience that night, described it as ‘the creation of a madman.’ Yet Stravinsky claimed that he was merely ‘the vessel through which the Rite passed.’ Opening the concert is Debussy’s no less groundbreaking Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune. ‘From that moment,’ wrote Pierre Boulez, ‘music began to beat with a new pulse’.

Watch Esa-Pekka Salonen discuss his relationship with The Rite of Spring in this special centenary video

Click here to view an interactive online version of the 2012/13 season brochure

This concert is supported by the Meyer Foundation