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Afternoon on 3: Proms 2010 Repeats

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2010 Repeats: 23/08/2010

23/08/2010

Proms 2010 Repeats

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Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in Scriabin's Symphony No 1 and Stravinsky's The Firebird.

Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in the scintillating ballet score The Firebird that Stravinsky wrote 100 years ago for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Plus Scriabin: Symphony No 1 in E.

With Jonathan Swain

Valery Gergiev and the LSO perform the scintillating ballet score that Stravinsky wrote one hundred years ago for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Based on the Russian folk tale of the exotic Firebird imprisoned by the evil magician Kashchey, the work made him famous overnight. Scriabin too was nothing if not ambitious: he began his symphonic output with a massive work in six movements, complete with a choral finale in praise of art and including two solo vocal roles, taken in this performance by members of Gergiev's Mariinsky Theatre. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E major
Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete)

Nadezhda Serdiuk (mezzo-soprano)
Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Followed by highlights from last year's Aldeburgh Festival including:
Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 64 no. 4
Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 no. 2 ("Rasumovsky")
Minetti Quartet.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2010 Repeats

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