NOSPR / Lawrence Foster / Anna Vinnitskaya - NOSPR

Both Schubert’s First Symphony and Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto are youthful works. Inspired by Mozart and Beethoven, the Symphony by the sixteen-year-old Schubert was written towards the end of his time at the Piarist-run boarding school where his teachers included Antonio Salieri. Rachmaninov composed his First Piano Concerto at the age of eighteen, subsequently modifying it many times before the final version was presented almost thirty years after the premiere.
The Rite of Spring is a different story entirely. A fruit of Stravinsky’s collaboration with the librettist Nikolay Roerich, a specialist in primitive cultures, the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky and the head of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, it is regarded as one of the most visionary works in the history of music. Almost 110 years since the storm that erupted during the opening minutes of the premiere, it remains unclear whether that tumult was ignited by the rough gestures of the dancers emerging from the austere backdrop of barbaric Rus or the music, which ventured way beyond the binding aesthetic norms.

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Duration of the concert: approx. 100 minutes