BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Barbican Season 2023-24 Rites Remade
Rites Remade
19:00 Sun 22 Oct 2023 Barbican, London
Violence, delicacy and sounds to liberate the imagination: as Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra put Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the centre of a century of sonic adventure.
Violence, delicacy and sounds to liberate the imagination: as Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra put Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring at the centre of a century of sonic adventure.
110 years ago, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring blew classical music wide open - and we’re still dealing with the aftershock. Sounds become colours, orchestras erupt like volcanoes and a century dances to the pure, liberating energy of unchained rhythm. It’s an explosive climax to a concert in which sound itself is the star.
Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth is joined by recorder phenomenon Erik Bosgraaf in Anna Meredith’s Origami Songs as part of a sequence of music that swings from fragile beauty to elemental force, including music by Arvo Part and a rare performance of Stefan Niculescu’s stunning, explosive 1970s classic Ison II. Prepare to re-imagine the way you listen.
Ilan Volkov has had to withdraw from this concert. We are grateful to Ryan Wigglesworth who will conduct in his place at short notice.
