BBC Proms 2018 Prom 65, Stravinsky, Ravel and Berio (320kbps .mp3) torrent

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 65, Stravinsky, Ravel and Berio (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, in Ravel's La valse, Berio's Sinfonia, with London Voices, and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Three 20th-century classics explore the fantastical beginnings of modern music. Semyon Bychkov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a journey that contrasts the pre-war, avant-garde provocations of Stravinsky’s infamous ballet The Rite of Spring with the darker post-war reflections of Ravel’s La valse, also commissioned by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes.

At the centre of the programme is Berio’s extraordinary Sinfonia. Dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, it is a technical tour de force for orchestra and eight solo voices that gathers together familiar fragments of classical music (including nods to both the Ravel and Stravinsky works) to create something bewilderingly brilliant and utterly, joyously original.

01. Ravel - La valse
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 65
02. Luciano Berio - Sinfonia
02i. Introduction to Berio’s Sinfonia
03. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
03i. Introduction to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

London Voices
Sound Intermedia
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

04. BBC Proms 2018 Prom 65, Interval, Proms Plus
Hannah Conway with an introduction to Berio's Sinfonia, together with music critic Ivan Hewett and lecturer and composer William Mival. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham
Broadcast: 31 August 2018