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THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2009
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6.15pm Proms Intro In the second of three talks celebrating Stravinsky's ballets, Christopher Cook discusses The Rite of Spring with Director of the Royal Ballet, Monica Mason, and choreographer Millicent Hodson, who has reconstructed Nijinsky's original choreography for The Rite of Spring. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 38: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Date Thursday 13 August 2009
- Time 8.00pm - c9.55pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for 7 days.
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The BBC Scottish SO, under Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov, pair two Diaghilev commissions. With its pounding rhythms, cataclysmic upheavals and savage scenario of a young girl dancing herself to death, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is still genuinely earthshattering – no wonder Nijinsky's 1913 production provoked a riot.
Begun as a homage to the Viennese waltz but twisted by his wartime experiences into a darker vision of a society whirling to disaster, Ravel's La valse was actually rejected by Diaghilev and only finally staged in the year of his death, choreographed by Nijinsky's sister Bronislava.
Unsuk Chin's new Cello Concerto was written specially for Alban Gerhardt, an early member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
- Ravel La valse (12 mins)
- Unsuk Chin Cello Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere) (c30 mins)
- interval
- Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (33 mins)
- Alban Gerhardt cello
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Ilan Volkov conductor
- Alban Gerhardt is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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