Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Sergei Prokofiev – Scythian Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor (original version, 1879)
~ Interval ~
Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
Performers
Thomas Dausgaard – Conductor
Kirill Gerstein – piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Designate Thomas Dausgaard round off this weekend’s Stravinsky/Scottish series with the work that changed music for ever. In The Rite of Spring rhythm was shockingly prioritised over harmony - and pounding, jagged, brutal rhythm at that.
One of The Rite’s most impactful relatives is the Scythian Suite by Stravinsky’s compatriot Prokofiev, a blazing orchestral canvas that forms the perfect foil to the heartfelt beauty of Tchaikovsky’s charming First Piano Concerto, performed by Kirill Gerstein in a new critical edition which, he says, ‘allows us to return to Tchaikovsky’s original intentions’.