CBSO and Chorus/Oramo
The CBSO and Chorus plus soloists conducted by Sakari Oramo perform Stravinsky. With the chamber opera Mavra, the rarely-heard cantata The King of the Stars and The Rite of Spring.
In a concert given in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Martin Handley presents the grand finale of the IgorFest series.
The programme features works by Stravinsky, including Fireworks, which shows the influence of Stravinsky's teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. It is followed by the comic opera Mavra - dedicated to Tchaikovsky - and which is a witty setting of a Pushkin tale set in a Russian village.
His strange, visionary 1912 cantata The King of the Stars precedes a work composed at the same time, and famous for its scandalous Paris premiere - The Rite of Spring.
Stravinsky: Fireworks; Four Russian Peasant Songs; Mavra; The King of the Stars; The Rite of Spring
Anita Watson: Parasha
Liora Grodnikaite: The Neighbour
Elizabeth Sikora: The Mother
Robert Anthony Gardiner: The Hussar
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Sakari Oramo (conductor)
Plus recordings by past winners of the RPS awards, which celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2009. Pianist Angela Hewitt, winner of the 2002 Radio 3 Listeners' Award, plays Bach.
Bach: English Suite no.6 in D minor, BWV 811
Angela Hewitt (piano)
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 868
Angela Hewitt (piano)
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- Tue 12 May 2009 19:00成人快手 Radio 3