Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...
Composer Alexandre Desplat plays “Happy Birthday to You” on his keyboard — but with a twist: the final note on “you” is higher than in the traditional melody. It’s Igor Stravinsky’s “Greeting Prelude, ...
“The Fairy’s Kiss,” based on a bone-chilling Hans Christian Andersen story and with a score combining the gifts of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, is something you would think that many choreographers ...
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano Igor Stravinsky, Composer Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor Capriccio Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor ...
On June 25 1910, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird opened to acclaim at the Paris Opéra. The success propelled its composer, then aged 28, to international prominence, a position of influence he ...
The violinist Samuel Dushkin, Stravinsky's collaborator, wrote that when arranging some of his more popular pieces for violin and piano the composer seemed "to go back to the essence of the music and ...
This fabulous two-CD set offers so many pleasures it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with the music, which, apart from the Duo Concertant, consists of Stravinsky’s arrangements of his own ...
Steven Osborne and Ilan Volkov follow their discs devoted to Britten's works for piano and orchestra, and to Tippett's, with an equivalent survey of Stravinsky. Both the Concerto for Piano and Wind ...
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