Performances of Eva Ollikainen at BBC Music

Wed 13 Aug 2025

• 19:30

  Boléro and The Rite of Spring

  Royal Albert Hall

  From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

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  From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

  Programme

  • • • Edgard Varèse
      • Intégrales(12 mins)
    • • Anna Thorvaldsdottir
      • Before we fall (Cello Concerto)(26 mins)BBC co-commission: UK premiere
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Boléro(13 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Igor Stravinsky
      • The Rite of Spring(33 mins)

  Performers

  • Johannes Moser

    cello
    cello
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Eva Ollikainen

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Edgard Varèse
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Igor Stravinsky

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  Part of

  Proms 2025