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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

The best dance of 2022

Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine calls on western allies to boycott Russian culture

Minister defends step in ‘civilisational battle’ but says it would not amount to ‘cancelling Tchaikovsky’

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Israel Galván: La Consagración de la Primavera review – Stravinsky’s Rite reborn

The flamenco star reinvents Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet in a stunning solo show that seems to take over his entire body

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BBCNOW/Jeannin review – exultant Ravel and extravagant Stravinsky

Making her debut with the National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Swedish conductor Sofi Jeannin controlled their massive sonorities with quiet authority

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Israel Galván: La Consagración de la Primavera review – Stravinsky with a flamenco stamp

The maverick choreographer makes his mark on The Rite of Spring in this elementally austere exercise in anxiety and loose-cannon footwork

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Julie Cunningham & Company review – holding the moment

In this double bill, a queer response to Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, the dancing is direct, controlled and compelling

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English National Ballet: Ek/Forsythe/Quagebeur review – masters at work

Mats Ek’s Rite of Spring is a pared back but powerful take on Stravinsky’s mighty score and William Forsythe’s Blake Works 1 is intensely watchable

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Beethoven and Stravinsky Violin Concertos review – Frang and Kuusisto create sweetness, swagger and exhilaration

In his first recording as conductor, Pekka Kuusisto is insightful and in control, and Vilde Frang brings electricity to both concertos

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Carnación; Petrushka review – two contrasting personal visions

Silver Lion winner Rocío Molina unleashes raw energy, while Golden Lion winner Saburo Teshigawara turns his gaze inward

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Appreciation: What did Peter Brook and Richard Taruskin have in common? Next to nothing and everything

Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

Los Angeles Times

Jurowski Conducts Stravinsky Vol 1 review – rich early work and a terrifying Rite

Stravinsky’s famous ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring are balanced on this impressive live set with valuable lesser-known pieces

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The Rite of Spring review – a bruising collision of life, sex and death

A Covid-dogged company of African dancers triumph in an unbearable yet riveting revival of Pina Bausch’s take on Stravinsky

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Mario, Morricone or Mandalorian: what is the greatest film, TV and game music of all time?

This year’s ABC Classic 100 theme is Music for the Screen: think less Rachmaninoff, more Ratchet & Clank. The presenters share their predictions on how the Australian public has voted

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Pina Bausch: The Rite of Spring review – gut-wrenching brilliance

Sadler’s Wells, LondonA company of dancers from African countries deliver Bausch’s shattering vision of Stravinsky with devastating force

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Circa: Sacre review – an original and awesome Stravinsky reboot

Australian circus group Circa debuts a beautifully detailed interpretation of The Rite of Spring

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The week in classical: Mavra/Pierrot lunaire; LSO/ Tilson Thomas; Gabrieli/ McCreesh

Covent Garden’s future stars make the most of a tricky double bill

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: What is Ukrainian music, and what does it say about the war?

LOS ANGELES — The first week of May, I attended four concerts. All four, whether by chance or intent, had a connection with Ukraine. That was obvious the first day of May at a benefit concert for Ukraine put on by the Wende Museum and Jacaranda Music at the Robert…

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