Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel & Berio at Royal Albert Hall, London
Semyon Bychkov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Prom:65 at London's Royal Albert Hall on August 31. The Royal Albert website describes it as a journey that contrasts the pre-war, avant-garde provocations of "The Rite of Spring" Stravinsky's infamous ballet with the gloomy post-war reflections of Ravel's La valse, also commissioned by Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes.At the centre of the programme lies Berio's amaz…