Afternoon on 3 - Proms 2010 Repeats - 23/08/2010

With Jonathan Swain Valery Gergiev and the LSO perform the scintillating ballet score that Stravinsky wrote one hundred years ago for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Based on the Russian folk tale of the exotic Firebird imprisoned by the evil magician Kashchey, the work made him famous overnight. Scriabin too was nothing if not ambitious: he began his symphonic output with a massive work in six movements, complete with a choral finale in praise of art and including two solo vocal roles, taken in this performance by members of Gergiev's Mariinsky Theatre. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E major Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete) Nadezhda Serdiuk (mezzo-soprano) Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor) London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) Followed by highlights from last year's Aldeburgh Festival including: Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 64 no. 4 Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 no. 2 ("Rasumovsky") Minetti Quartet.