Performance on 3 - CBSO and Chorus/Oramo

In a concert given in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Martin Handley presents the grand finale of the IgorFest series. The programme features works by Stravinsky, including Fireworks, which shows the influence of Stravinsky's teacher Rimsky-Korsakov. It is followed by the comic opera Mavra - dedicated to Tchaikovsky - and which is a witty setting of a Pushkin tale set in a Russian village. His strange, visionary 1912 cantata The King of the Stars precedes a work composed at the same time, and famous for its scandalous Paris premiere - The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky: Fireworks; Four Russian Peasant Songs; Mavra; The King of the Stars; The Rite of Spring Anita Watson: Parasha Liora Grodnikaite: The Neighbour Elizabeth Sikora: The Mother Robert Anthony Gardiner: The Hussar City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Sakari Oramo (conductor) Plus recordings by past winners of the RPS awards, which celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2009. Pianist Angela Hewitt, winner of the 2002 Radio 3 Listeners' Award, plays Bach. Bach: English Suite no.6 in D minor, BWV 811 Angela Hewitt (piano) Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 868 Angela Hewitt (piano)