91Èȱ¬

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Nicholas Collon conducts Aurora Orchestra in Stravinsky's groundbreaking ballet, The Rite of Spring, performed from memory.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Various Artists: A dramatic and musical exploration of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

c. 8:15pm Interval music
Stravinsky
Concerto for 2 Pianos
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
DECCA 4338292

c. 8:35pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Charlotte Ritchie (actor)
Karl Queensborough (actor)
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor)

‘I dreamed of a pagan ritual in which a sacrificial virgin danced herself to death.’ A vision was the inspiration for Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, a ballet that caused a riot at its premiere in 1913. This Prom is an unprecedented opportunity to get under the skin of the work that shook the worlds of music and ballet with its stamping, jagged rhythms and modern harmony. Nicholas Collon and the pioneering Aurora Orchestra dramatise the Rite’s origins, reliving the scene of its notorious concert premiere and finally performing the whole thing from memory.