IGOR STRAVINSKY - Firebird Suite

00:00 Music explanation
24:40 The Music

24:43 Introduction: The Firebird and Her Dance
29:21 Pantomime I
29:49 Pas de deux: Firebird and Ivan Tsarevich
34:13 Pantomime II
34:39 Scherzo: Dance of the Princesses
37:08 Pantomime III
38:14 The Princesses' Round Dance
43:00 Infernal Dance
47:07 Berceuse
51:40 Finale

55:02 Applauses

Tom Service, conductor Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra explain the works and then performing them from memory.

This year, their biggest challenge yet to the Proms: Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Russian fairy tales and folk melodies collide with Stravinsky’s bold modernism in one of the great ballet scores of the 20th century.

The concert opens with another Russian classic: Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, performed by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov.

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