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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 04

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 04: Part 2: Prom 4 (part 2): Les Siècles - The Rite of Spring

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Prom 4 (part 2): Les Siècles - The Rite of Spring

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 4 (part 2): Les Siècles - The Rite of Spring

2013

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2013, Prom 04, Prom 4 (part 2): Les Siècles - The Rite of Spring

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siecles in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Francois-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siecles in the first-ever period instrument performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth live at the BBC Proms with dance music from the court of Louis XIV to the Ballets Russes

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch


Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme - overture and dances
Rameau: Les Indes galantes - dances
Delibes: Coppélia - excerpts
Massenet: Le Cid - ballet music (excerpts)

8.25pm Interval

8.45pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth (conductor)

An evening of riot and revolution in dance music from the court of Louis XIV to the Ballets Russes. Francois-Xavier Roth directs Les Siècles in the first period-instrument performance at the Proms of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, marking the work's centenary. Scenes from ballets by Lully, Rameau, Delibes and Massenet provide more than two centuries of historical context for the work that scandalised musical Paris at its premiere in 1913.

An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Wednesday 17th July at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 04

Prom 04

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.

All broadcasts from the 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Prom in which Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth perform dance music

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a Prom in which Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth perform dance music from the court of Louis XIV to the Ballets Russes.

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