Diaghilev Ballets
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs ballet scores commissioned by Diaghilev: Stravinsky's Petrushka and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Andris Nelsons conducts.
Presented by Catherine Bott
The CBSO celebrates the creative energies of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes with two brilliant ballet scores. Diaghilev brought together some of the most influential artists of the early twentieth-century, including Stravinsky, Picasso, Matisse and Nijinsky. Tonight the orchestra features music by Stravinsky and Ravel.
Stravinsky's Petrushka, premiered in 1911, tells a fantastic story of love and death amidst the marionettes at a Russian spring fair; Ravel's Daphnis et Chlo茅, premiered a year later, meanwhile, is a love story of Ancient Greece relating the love between a goatherd and a shepherdess, set to some of the most sensuous music ever written for the stage.
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CBSO Chorus
conductor Andris Nelsons
Followed by a selection of music for Holy Week, including:
Biber: Rosary Sonata no.6: 'The Agony in the Garden'
Andrew Manze (violin)
Richard Egarr (organ).
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- Mon 18 Apr 2011 19:00成人快手 Radio 3