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Rites of Spring

BBC Radio 3
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Another concert in the series by the BBC orchestras and BBC Singers devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Tonight's programme, recorded last Sunday in London's Royal Festival
Hall, includes the work which alerted
Diaghilev to Stravinsky's talent, an early song cycle, and his second ballet. Sarah Walker (mezzo)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Mark Wigglesworth
Fireworks; Apollo; The Faun and the Shepherdess; Petrushka (1911)

Contributors

Unknown:
Igor Stravinsky.
Unknown:
Sarah Walker
Conductor:
Mark Wigglesworth
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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