BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 38 - Stravinsky’s The Firebird with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tianyi Lu performs Stravinsky's dazzling Firebird. And Sol Gabetta is the soloist in Francisco Coll's Cello Concerto.

01. Dukas - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
01a. Introduction to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
02. Coll, Francisco - Cello Concerto BBC co-commission: UK premiere
02a. Introduction to Francisco Coll
02b. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 38 - interval
Cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett talks to Linton Stephens about the figure of the Firebird in Russian folklore. With its "golden feathers and eyes like oriental crystal," this magical, glowing bird from a faraway land was often seen as prophetic, a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor. But in Stravinsky's ballet the Firebird is portrayed in an altogether more positive light.

03. Puccini - Preludio sinfonico
04 Stravinsky - The Firebird – suite (1945 version)
04a. Introduction to The Firebird

Sol Gabetta (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Tianyi Lu (conductor)

Stravinsky showed his true colours in The Firebird. In this coruscating ballet music he unleashed for the first time the vivid colours that would captivate generations of theatre-goers. He had the perfect subject matter in the compelling story of the young Prince Ivan outwitting the evil sorcerer Kashchey and freeing the 13 enchanted Princesses with the help of the magical Firebird. Tianyi Lu also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Puccini’s effortlessly lyrical Preludio sinfonico, Dukas’s retelling of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice tale and a new Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll, powered by dances ranging from the tango to the waltz.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

First broadcast: 18 August 2024  
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