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In music and dance, Le sacre du printemps has embodied the rupture with prevailing conventions ever since its 1913 premiere. Stravinsky’s own two-piano transcription of this groundbreaking work is heard alongside La Valse—Ravel’s musical revue of the Viennese monarchy collapsing in the First World War, and at the same time a fantastical, deadly apotheosis of the waltz. In contrast stands…

In music and dance, Le sacre du printemps has embodied the rupture with prevailing conventions ever since its 1913 premiere. Stravinsky’s own two-piano transcription of this groundbreaking work is heard alongside La Valse—Ravel’s musical revue of the Viennese monarchy collapsing in the First World War, and at the same time a fantastical, deadly apotheosis of the waltz. In contrast stands…