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Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Recorded live in concert, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's visceral masterwork The Rite of Spring, plus music by Pärt, Meredith and Niculescu.

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in a concert ending with one of Igor Stravinsky’s most celebrated pieces. The Rite of Spring surely deserves that overused epithet of 'iconic' and over a century after its infamous Paris premiere, it still thrills audiences with the visceral power of its explosive rhythms and spectacular orchestral sonorities.

To begin, it’s back to the future with the elemental sound world of wind and percussion in Ștefan Niculescu’s 1975 Ison II.

In between, work by one of the most refreshing and boldest composers working in Britain today, and a Grand Old Man of New Music. Recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf is the soloist Anna Meredith’s Origami Songs, a collection of miniatures which, like Japanese paper-folding, evokes the real world with sophisticated simplicity. Arvo Pärt is now famous for his particular brand of minimalism. But 60 years ago in music like his Perpetuum mobile, the 28-year-old composer was finding his voice via the serialist camp of the avant-garde.

Recorded last month at the Barbican Hall, London, and introduced by Martin Handley.

Ștefan Niculescu: Ison II
Anna Meredith: Origami Songs
Arvo Pärt: Perpetuum mobile
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Erik Bosgraaf (recorder)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 17 Nov 2023 19:30
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ștefan Niculescu

    Ison II (UK premiere)

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Anna Meredith

    Origami Songs

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Strom (On the River) D. 943

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Christopher Glynn. Singer: Sophie Bevan.

  • Keith Fullerton Whitman

    Automatic Ping

    Performer: Keith Fullerton Whitman.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Recorder Sonata in F Major, TWV 41:F2

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Performer: Francesco Corti.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Perpetuum Mobile, Op.10

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.1 in F major Op.8

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Nordic Rhapsody.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Bagatelles op.47

    Performer: Jiří Panocha. Performer: Pavel Zejfart. Performer: Jaroslav Kulhan. Performer: Jaroslav Tůma.
    • SUPRAPHON.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 Nov 2023 19:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3