BBC Proms 2020 Season - Simon Rattle conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky (2014) (320kbps .mp3)



In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.



Georgia Mann presents this concert from 2014, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Opening the concert is Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – the composer’s blazing ‘final spark’ and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, it is a mercurial showcase of dramatic skill.



In the second half we enter the Russian fairy-tale world of Stravinsky’s The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes that established the young composer as a rising star.



01. Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances

01a. Introduction to the Rattle prom

02. Stravinsky - The Firebird

02a. Outro to Rachmaninov and intro to Stravinsky

03. Puccini - Manon Lescaut - Intermezzo [encore]





Berlin Philharmonic

Sir Simon Rattle



First broadcast:  BBC Proms, 5 September 2014



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