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Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo

,Barbican Hall
Igor Yuzefovich landscape holding violin

An all-Russian concert of firsts introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s joint leader with a major concerto performance and sees the orchestra perform a long-lost work by Stravinsky.

Only rediscovered in 2015, Stravinsky’s early Funeral Song is a memorial to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo here perform both this fascinating miniature and the composer’s arresting ballet score The Rite of Spring together for the first time. The Orchestra’s new co-leader Igor Yuzefovich demonstrates his virtuosity in Shostakovich’s mercurial First Violin Concerto, taking on the great emotional and physical demands of a work composed under the restrictions of the Soviet Regime, but only premiered after Stalin’s death.

Tagged with: Classical music BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19 Multibuy BBC Symphony Orchestra 2018–19

Programme

Stravinsky Funeral Song Op 5
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Performers

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Igor Yuzefovich violin

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