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Programs


1 piano 4 hands
Das himmlische Leben (with song)
Les Ballets Russes
Norwegian Tour
Invitation to the dance

2 pianos 4 hands
An Alpine Concert
Les Ballets Russes
Mediterranean colours
Made in Belgium
American Dream
The heroic Richard Strauss (with violin)
The Sea (with song)

Les Ballets Russes (1 or 2 pianos 4 hands)

At the beginning of the 20th century, Diaghilev came with his company of dancers in Paris. The success of the Ballets Russes is tremendous, and an ongoing series of astonishing productions is shown before a public deeply impressed. The innovation is to be found as well in the music than in the choreography, and reach a summit in 1913 with the famous first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a revolutionary landmark in the history of music.

Alexander Borodin, Polovtsian Dances
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel, La Valse
Erik Satie, Parade
Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring