Prom 41: LSO/Gergiev | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonBorn exactly a decade apart, Scriabin and Stravinsky were the two composers who in their very different ways led 20th-century Russian music towards modernism. Valery Gergiev's pairing of early Scriabin with early Stravinsky, the First Symphony with The Firebird, certainly emphasised those differences, but also the points of contact between the St Petersburg-based Stravinsky and his older Moscow contemporary.Completed in 1900, Scriabin's First is rarely performed nowadays...

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