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Presented by Martin Handley.

As part of their Emigre - The Rite of Spring season, the London Symphony Orchestra, under their chief conductor Valery Gergiev, perform two early 20th century classics. Stravinsky's seminal The Rite of Spring, written for Nijinsky's ballet, centres on a prehistoric community which selects a young virgin for ecstatic human sacrifice.

Less feted than Stavinsky's work, Bartok's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is loosely based on a folk tale. Bluebeard's new wife Judith insists on opening the locked doors inside his castle, and in doing so she reveals the ugly world of his past which she should have best left undiscovered.

Elena Zhidkova (soprano)
Willard White (bass-baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Followed by piano music played by Louis Lortie in a recital at City Halls, Glasgow, including Debussy's L'isle joyeuse.
City Halls, Glasgow
Rec: 13.11.08

Bartok: Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano
Richard STOLTZMAN - Clarinet
Richard GOODE - Piano
Lucy Chapman STOLTZMAN - Violin
RCA RD 60170 1

Scriabin: 10 Mazurkas for piano (Op.3)
no.4 in E major;
Yevgeny SUDBIN - Piano
City Halls, Glasgow
Rec: 11.12.08