On this week's podcast of From the Top, the victorious finale from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite is performed by a teenage pianist from Chicago. He's joined by a teenage violinist using YouTube to ...
A fascinating chance to compare a composer's own interpretation with a brilliant newcomer. Ivan Fischer's new Rite of Spring is lean and hungry, razor-sharp and matches his description of it: "fresh, ...
Igor Stravinsky looms large in the pantheon of modern composers. Both the White House and the Kremlin sent representatives to his April 1971 funeral in Manhattan. Two weeks later, thousands swelled ...
Beginning Sept. 19, the Houston Symphony is doing something relatively rare: performing Igor Stravinsky’s entire 47-minute score — instead of the more commonly played, 20-minute suite — for his famous ...
When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” premiered in 1910, it immediately “took Paris by storm.” “It was a huge success,” explains Andrew Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
(The) Rite of Spring Budapest Festival Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer Iván Fischer, Conductor (The) Firebird Budapest Festival Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer Iván Fischer, Conductor Scherzo ...
Petrushka London Philharmonic Orchestra Klaus Tennstedt, Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Composer (The) Firebird Suite Igor Stravinsky, Composer Klaus Tennstedt, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra ...
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5530715/5530720" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The ...
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