
Gareth Malone, Gillian Moore and Dele Sosimi head from Benin to Havana
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The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
Spring rounds from part one of the Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky which had its premiere in 1913. It's beautiful Gillian, it opens like an idyll, like a dawn chorus in a dale somewhere. Something really striking about this session is that accompaniment in the orchestra where all the low strings are all divided up into multiple parts. Plucking and bowing and making this sound to me sounds like a great big deep accordion.
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