Like tonic poured over clear ice, the sounds of Stravinsky’s Sonata (1924) refresh and restore in any context. They did so, again, to begin the second half of Gloria Cheng’s season-opening Piano ...
The Houston Symphony presents Riots & Scandals Festival: Stravinsky Rite of Spring + Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto live at Jones Hall from Friday, January 20 through Sunday, January 22, 2023. A century ...
This is about as attractive a programme for a single CD of Stravinsky’s music as could be devised. The inclusion of the ‘Chorale’ is particularly canny. Naxos doesn’t claim it as a first, but I’m not ...
Stravinsky’s piano music is a well-kept secret. Despite a sizable and distinctive output, only the Three Movements from “Petrushka” for solo piano — the composer’s own transcription of his ballet — is ...
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 ...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform Debussy, Stravinsky and Shostakovich, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Vladimir Jurowski opens the programme with Stravinsky's brilliant deconstruction of the ...
Stravinsky went to his grave believing his early Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, his first work performed in public, to be “fortunately lost”. He recalled it as an “inept imitation of late Beethoven”.
Stravinsky’s diverse output for piano is headed here by the sophisticated Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and the gritty Movements for Piano and Orchestra. Bavouzet is sprightly and ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Stravinsky was an active concert pianist and referred to the keyboard as the “fulcrum” of his compositional ...