Name: Prom 6: The Rite of Spring
Start: 2019-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Edward Gardner

Instrumentalist

James Ehnes

Violin

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School

Prom 6: The Rite of Spring

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 6: The Rite of Spring: Metacosmos Thorvaldsdottir (+2 More)

Public

Metacosmos

Violin Concerto, Op. 15

The Rite of Spring

Approved

Pagan dances meet the music of the spheres. Stravinsky’s riotous ballet score contrasts with Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Metacosmos and Britten’s elegiac Violin Concerto. Edward Gardner conducts musicians from the Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music.
Earthy, pagan dances meet the Music of the Spheres in this concert of 20th- and 21st-century orchestral works.

Stravinsky’s infamous ballet score The Rite of Spring pulses with rhythmic energy and urgency, while Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous and intricately textured Metacosmos travels deep into space.

At the centre of the programme is Britten’s elegiac Violin Concerto, written on the cusp of the Second World War. Violinist James Ehnes joins Edward Gardner and musicians from both London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School.

English

Prom 6: The Rite of Spring by Thorvaldsdottir, Britten, Stravinsky, From (2019/2019), Conductor Edward Gardner, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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