Tag: Scythian suite
Nicholas Roerich: archaeology and ‘The Rite of Spring’
![Nicholas Roerich: archaeology and ‘The Rite of Spring’ Nicholas Roerich: archaeology and ‘The Rite of Spring’](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Roerich-6.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s concert on Friday in the Brangwyn Hall had a well-matched programme: Stravinsky’s The rite of spring, preceded by Prokofiev’s Scythian suite and Ravel’s piano concerto in G major. All are brilliant works, written within twenty years of one another, and all feature the strongest of rhythms and cross-rhythms. Prokofiev […]