BBC Proms - 2010 - Prom 41 - Scriabin, Stravinsky - Part 1

BBC Proms 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor 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 tonight by members of Gergiev's Mariinsky Theatre. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E major Nadezhda Serdiuk (mezzo-soprano) Sergei Skorokhodov (tenor) London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) This Prom is repeated on Monday 23rd August at 2pm.