The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music?

In anticipation of the Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest is Noise festival, conductors, musicians and artists share their favourite classical works from a century of musical turbulenceMarin Alsop, conductorThe Rite of Spring: Stravinksy (1913)Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is revolutionary even by today's standards. There's a brutality, an edginess, a primal quality that instinctually appeal to us, while tapping into a measure of fear. It anticipates and prophesies the looming 20th cen...

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