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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel and Berio

Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel and Berio

2018

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Live at BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov, BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky, Ravel and Berio

Live at the BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Ravel's La valse, Berio's Sinfonia, with London Voices, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, in Ravel's La valse, Berio's Sinfonia, with London Voices, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 

Presented by Katie Derham

Ravel: La valse 
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia*

c.7.40pm
Interval: Proms Plus. Hannah Conway with an introduction to Berio's Sinfonia, together with music critic Ivan Hewett and lecturer and composer William Mival. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

c. 8.00pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring 

London Voices* 
Sound Intermedia*
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)


Three 20th-century classics explore the fantastical beginnings of modern music. Semyon Bychkov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a journey that contrasts the pre-war, avant-garde provocations of Stravinsky’s infamous ballet The Rite of Spring with the darker post-war reflections of Ravel’s La valse, also commissioned by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes.

At the centre of the programme is Berio’s extraordinary Sinfonia. Dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, it is a technical tour de force for orchestra and eight solo voices that gathers together familiar fragments of classical music (including nods to both the Ravel and Stravinsky works) to create something bewilderingly brilliant and utterly, joyously original.

BBC Proms: 2018

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 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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