conductor Kent Nagano Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten) Anne Fournet (narrator) London Philharmonic
Choir; Tiffin School Boys Choir, live from the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Roslavets Aux heures de la nouvelle lune (first performance)
Prokofiev Piano
Concerto No 2 in G minor
8.20 Stravinsky's
Persephone was originally commissioned as a piece of 'vanity-choreography' by the legendary Russian actress and dancer
Ida Rubinstein. Dance critic Jann Parry explores the performing history of this dancing-singing-speaking melodrama.
8.40 Stravinsky Persephone
(In association with the South Bank Centre)