Here, without question, is the gig of the week in any genre. Tonight the BBC SSO�s chief conductor Ilan Volkov adds a new tune to his repertoire with his debut performance of Stravinsky�s epochal ballet score from 1913, The Rite of Spring.
7pm, City Halls, Glasgow, £10-£23, 0141 353 8000
Here, without question, is the gig of the week in any genre.
Tonight the BBC SSO's chief conductor Ilan Volkov adds a new tune to his repertoire with his debut performance of Stravinsky's epochal ballet score from 1913, The Rite of Spring.
This is the work that, at one stroke, threw the rule book out of the window, caused an irreversible shifting of the tectonic plates in classical music, and provoked a riot in Paris when it was premiered.
Fisticuffs ensued, the police were called in, and musicians and dancers ran for cover. It's primal.
It's elemental; so is Volkov.
Be there and prepare to be short-circuited.
Note the early start.
