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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham

Ravel: La valse
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia*

c.7.40pm
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.

c. 8.00pm
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

London Voices*
Sound Intermedia*
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

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

At the centre of the programme is Berio鈥檚 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.