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While out hunting, a prince ends up in the garden of an evil wizard and catches the Firebird that lives there. When he obeys the creature’s entreaties to free it, he is given a magic feather in gratitude. The gift will one day save his life... In its form as a complete ballet or in its various suites for the concert hall, the «Firebird» is one of Igor Stravinsky’s most fascinating and popular creations in sound. But what musical secrets are hidden behind this amalgamation of two Russian folk marches and their fantastic and fanciful realisation? In his Tonkunstler debut, the young Spanish conductor Julio García Vico decodes them with his usual skill alongside Albert Hosp – a brilliant foretaste of the subscription programme in late autumn.