Stravinsky Festival (Multibuy available only when booking 8 concerts of more)
11 May 2012 / 19:30
Hall
Tickets: £10 / 15 / 19.50 / 27 / 35
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Stravinsky Mass Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D major Stravinsky The Firebird – complete ballet Valery Gergiev conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Maud Millar soprano Chloë Treharne mezzo soprano Alessandro Fisher tenor Matthew Sandy tenor Oskar Palmbald bass London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky said of the Credo, the longest movement of his Mass setting, that just as ‘one composes a march to facilitate marching men, so with my Credo I hope to provide an aid to the text … There is much to believe’. Stravinsky began work on his Violin Concerto by sketching out its first chord on a napkin to which its violinist, Samuel Dushkin, hailed the concerto’s theme. The Firebird follows Prince Ivan’s quest to win his princess with the help of the Firebird who aids Ivan by bewitching his opponents into performing increasingly elaborate dances.
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