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BBC Proms: 2020: Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform an all-Russian programme inspired by dance: Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances and Stravinsky’s magical The Firebird.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

Georgia Mann presents this concert from 2014, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Opening the concert is Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – the composer’s blazing ‘final spark’ and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, it is a mercurial showcase of dramatic skill.

In the second half we enter the Russian fairy-tale world of Stravinsky’s The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes that established the young composer as a rising star.

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Stravinsky: The Firebird

Berlin Philharmonic
Sir Simon Rattle
(From the BBC Proms, 5 September 2014)

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