The Rite of Spring

The music

Stravinsky Funeral Song (12’) Listen
L Boulanger Faust et Hélène (32’) Listen
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (32’) Listen

The performers

• Karina Canellakis conductor*
• Véronique Gens soprano
• Andrew Staples tenor
• Jean-Sébastien Bou baritone

Experience a masterpiece that changed the course of music forever.

Paris, 1913: and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring changes the course of modern music. It wasn’t just that a riot broke out at the premiere, either – the rhythmic power and primal energy of Stravinsky’s volcanic score are so explosive that over a century later, we’re still reeling from the aftershock. But then, things do tend to catch fire when Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis conducts the LPO. Expect grand passions in Lili Boulanger’s sensuous Faust et Hélène, written the same year as The Rite of Spring, and dark emotion in Stravinsky’s Funeral Song.

*Karina Canellakis’s position in the LPO is generously supported by Richard Buxton.

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