Latest News: Classical, Stravinsky (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky from Isabelle Faust, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles 3rd March 2023Violinist Isabelle Faust's relationship with the music of Stravinsky continues, with François-Xavier Roth and his period-instruments orchestra Les Siècles joining her in an album built around the chamber-inspired Violin Concerto.
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Recording of the Week,
Mavra/Iolanta from the Bayerische Staatsoper 16th December 2022The young artists of the Munich opera-house's training studio (including Mirjam Mesak and Freddie De Tommaso) shine brightly in Axel Ranisch's ingenious fusion of two contrasting one-act operas by Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat from Isabelle Faust and Dominique Horwitz 27th August 2021David enjoys Isabelle Faust and friends' historically-informed account of Stravinsky's sardonic tale, with lively narration from Dominique Horwitz.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky & Eötvös from Pablo Heras-Casado and the Orchestre de Paris 9th April 2021The Spanish conductor delivers a very Gallic Rite of Spring, whilst Isabelle Faust is bewitched and bewitching on the world premiere recording of Péter Eötvös's 'Alhambra' Concerto.
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Recording of the Week,
Daniil Trifonov's Silver Age 6th November 2020The Russian pianist is by turns balletic, poetic and dramatic in solo works by Stravinsky and Prokofiev, whilst the Mariinsky Orchestra match his precision and imagination in concertos by the the latter composer and Scriabin.
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Recording of the Week,
Vasily Petrenko conducts Stravinsky & Respighi 30th October 2020Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra perform two contrasting ballets from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Stravinsky's unnerving Petrushka and Respighi's sparkling Boutique fantasque.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky and Rimsky-Korsakov from Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpool Philharmonic 14th December 2018The Russian conductor presides over sparkling, taut accounts of two avian fairy-tales: the complete ballet music for The Firebird and the suite from the posthumously-premiered opera Le Coq d’Or.
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Recording of the Week,
Riccardo Chailly conducts a world premiere recording of music by Stravinsky 12th January 2018James enjoys a stunning new disc of orchestral music by Stravinsky, including the world premiere recording of a recently-discovered early work, Chant funèbre.
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Recording of the Week,
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex from the LSO 7th April 2014James takes a trip to Ancient Greece with John Eliot Gardiner and the LSO’s muscular renditions of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Apollon musagète.
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Recording of the Week,
100th anniversary of the première of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring 27th May 2013The centenary of one of the most controversial premieres in musical history is marked by a new recording from Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, and a mammoth Collector’s Edition comprising 38 recordings dating from 1946 to 2010.
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Recording of the Week,
Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes 27th July 2009The Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet and Valery Gergiev commemorate the centenary of the Russian ballet company with a DVD which reconstructs Nijinsky’s original choreography for The Rite of Spring and The Firebird.