Le sacre

Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps" is a musical state of emergency: archaic, rhythmically unleashed, wild and to this day physically palpable. From here, looking back becomes the principle of this evening. Stravinsky leads us back into a pagan wilderness, Britten deals with 2600 years of Japanese history, and Stephen Hough looks through Stefan Zweig's book into the world of yesterday.