Stravinsky Part 2
Le roi des etoiles: The Rite of Spring
Where the Promenaders go in the wintertime is, one hopes, back to the Royal Albert Hall this year. The first Winter Proms season for 20 years begins tonight with a real Boulez all-Stravinsky concert, including the delightful Le roi des étoiles, which he has not conducted here before.
Concerts next week (7.30 In the Royal Albert Hall , unless stated otherwise)
Saturday: Handel, Brahms and Schubert
Sunday: Berlioz The Damnation of Faust
Monday (not broadcast): including Mozart's Mass in c minor
Monday (9.30 in the Round House): including the first performance of a BBC commission, Robin Holloway 's Evening with Angels
Tuesday: including Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
Wednesday: including Mahler's s Sixth
Thursday: Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (in collaboration with Fanfare for Europe)
Thursday (9.30 in Westminster Cathedral): Venetian music
Friday (Final Concert): Purcell and Elgar