大象传媒

Live From City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Jamie MacDougall

大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Artist in Association Matthias Pintscher perform Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Tine Thing Helseth and Marco Blaauw join the forces to perform the UK premiere of the double trumpet concerto composed by Pintscher inspired by Stravinsky's work and the artist Anselm Kiefer. The concert opens with Bach, demonstrating that revolutions don't have to start riots.

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tine Thing Helseth (Trumpet)
Marco Blaauw (Trumpet)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher (Conductor)

In the closing concert of the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 Season - the orchestra's Artist in Association Matthias Pintscher conducts a concert celebrating the centenary of the shattering premiere of Stravinsky's ballet, The Rite of Spring.

Premiered in Paris on 29th May 1913, with revolutionary choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Stravinsky's music, depicting a pagan rite in spring, included many new techniques, sounds and rhythms that continue to influence composers to this day.

Tonight's conductor and composer Matthias Pintscher is certainly influenced by Stravinsky's writing, and in the UK premiere of his double trumpet concerto Chute d'脡toiles, he pays homage to the great German artist Anselm Kiefer's 2007 installation in the Grand Palais, Paris, a great experiment in weight and movement conjuring a shower of falling stars and exploring creation and destruction, emerging and obliteration.

Music by Bach, who perhaps explored the same themes from an overtly religious point of view, starts the concert musically over 260 years before it finishes.

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