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Performing Rites: how Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps still shocks

Mark Pullinger, 29th March

Over a century after its premiere, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring still has the power to shock. Vasily Petrenko offers insights, while Tamara Rojo reflects on one of the most powerful choreographies, the version by Pina Bausch.

See Concertino for two pianos in A minor, Op.94 in

La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Russian spring breaks early in the Crucible Playhouse

Phil Parker, 10th January

Horton and Gavrić take in swooning late Romanticism and brittle Soviet-era irony before unleashing the power of the Russian spring

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