Klaus Mäkelä conducts Stravinsky’s “Firebird”
With his ballet music The Firebird, the young Igor Stravinsky revolutionised dance theatre – through an unusual fusion of Russian folk music with iridescent timbres and pulsating rhythms. Klaus Mäkelä, chief conductor designate of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, juxtaposes the ballet with Andrew Norman’s socially critical symphony Play, whose tonal language alternates between humour and aggressive abrasiveness.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Klaus Mäkelä
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