BBC Proms 2022

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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2022: Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

Prom 20: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

2022

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Live at the BBC Proms: Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky, Xenakis, Birtwistle and Ravel's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto with soloist Tom Borrow.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins in Stravinsky, Xenakis, Birtwistle and Ravel's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto with soloist Tom Borrow.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Harrison Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Iannis Xenakis: Jonchaies

20.15 
Interval: Gillian Moore joins Ian Skelly to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

20.35 
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tom Borrow (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Iannis Xenakis contemplated reeds in the wind; Stravinsky pictured a Russia before the dawn of civilisation. But Nature is unstoppable, and both composers unleashed forces beyond the imagination: riotous, explosive masterpieces from opposite ends of the 20th century, using supersized orchestras to redefine the limits of music itself. In Xenakis’s centenary year, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra reap the whirlwind that grew from Stravinsky’s storm. Ravel’s gorgeous, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto appears like an oasis of calm before Jonchaies and The Rite of Spring – though with the ‘astonishing’ (according to Bachtrack) BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow as soloist, it should be every bit as gripping. And to begin a summons by the late, much missed Harrison Birtwistle.

BBC Proms: 2022

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