Despite first-rate playing, the young conductor with the orchestral world at his feet fails to deliver the drama behind the vivid gestures With three major European orchestras already in his charge, ...

Vladimir Jurowski has been principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since 2007 and what comes across brilliantly on this new Stravinsky disc – recorded live in concert in 2014 and 2015 ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

Stravinsky first achieved international fame with these works, which were commissioned for – and first performed by – Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Premiered during an extraordinary period ...

Tom Service takes you on a journey into the extraordinary world of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, based on an archetypal puppet myth that shares the story of Punch.

Commentator Rob Kapilow uncovers the genius beneath the layers of Stravinsky's great ballet, Petrushka, and recalls how it inspired him to follow... 'Petrushka': Stravinsky's Opaque Reality One ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Debussy described Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring as "primitive music with all the modern ...

Petrushka Yakov Kreizberg, Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Composer Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra (The) Firebird, '(L')oiseau de feu' Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra Igor Stravinsky, Composer Yakov ...