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BBC Proms

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Martyn Brabbins

Instrumentalist

Tom Borrow

Piano

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: Concert Various

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Sonance Severance 2000

Piano Concerto in G Major

Jonchaies (1977)

The Rite of Spring

Approved

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 BBC Symphony Orchestra reap the whirlwind that grew from Stravinsky’s storm. Ravel’s gorgeous, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto appears like an oasis of calm between Jonchaies and The Rite of Spring – though with the ‘astonishing’ (according to Bachtrack) BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow as soloist, it should be every bit as gripping.

English

Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by Birtwistle, Ravel, Xenakis, Stravinsky, From (2022/2022), Conductor Martyn Brabbins, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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