| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-May-2013 Bridgewater Hall | The Rite of Spring with the BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena |
 Juanjo Mena concluded his season-long exploration of Stravinsky ballets with a sharp account of the most famous, The Rite of Spring, as part of a programme of unusually grand proportions.
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| 6-Apr-2013 Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall (Salle des Concerts) | A hip-hop Rite of Spring: 21st-century Stravinsky at La Villette in Paris |
 Whilst a celebratory centenary performance of Stravinsky’s masterful The Rite of Spring has already been planned next month on the very evening of the work’s première, another performance of the work has recently captured the imagination of Paris’ music and dance aficionados: Stravinsky en mode hip hop (“Stravinsky, hip-hop style”).Read full review... | |
| 22-Feb-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Fun, romance, and insanity with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall |
 Poor Ravel. He was expelled from the Conservatoire; he was consistently rejected for the Prix de Rome; he never married. Along with his contemporaries Stravinsky, Debussy and Satie, he made enormous strides in 20th-century music, but is unfortunately remembered best (when at all) for the plodding fifteen minutes of his 1928 composition Boléro. In 1928, the French composer traveled to New York and was exposed to contemporary big band music; he said of this subsequent work that “each movement of my new concerto has some jazz in it”.Read full review... | |
| 16-Feb-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Revolution in Paris: Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Ravel with the LPO |
 One of the most well-known pieces of the twentieth-century classical repertoire is of course Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring. The Southbank Centre’s Rest is Noise festival could not miss this piece, and tonight’s concert, titled “Revolution in Paris”, coupled it with two other pieces first premièred in Paris: Maurice Ravel’s ballet Ma mère l’oye and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 1.
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