Sounds Underground Concert - Alasdair Beatson and Iain Farrington

Bishopsgate Hall
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH
United Kingdom
020 7392 9200
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk

Alasdair Beatson, piano
Iain Farrington, piano


Two stars of the present generation of pianists present an evening of music to sweep you off your feet. La Valse is the apotheosis of the Viennese Walz. It is, in Ravel's words, a fantastic and fatal whirling, an almost hallucinatory ecstasy, ending in nightmare. The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's revolutionary ballet, provoked a riot at its first performance because of the uncompromising modernity of the score. In this programme the shock of the old is placed side by side with the shock of the new: the premières of dance-inspired music by Iain Farrington and Bushra El-Turk, commissioned by Sounds Underground.

Maurice Ravel : La Valse
Iain Farrington : Dance Craze
Bushra El-Turk : Metaphysical Enemy
Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring