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The Symphony in Three Movements is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky wrote the symphony from 1942–45 on commission by the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York. It was premièred by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Stravinsky on January 24, 1946.
- The Rite of Spring
- The Firebird
- Petrushka
- Agon
- Apollo
- Oedipus Rex
- Symphony of Psalms
- The Rake’s Progress
- The Soldier’S Tale
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments
The Rite Of Spring, one of Stravinsky’s best works, was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1913 and famously caused a riot. The audience were so outraged by Stravinsky’s avant-garde score, and Nijinsky’s choreography, that many people thought it seemed like the work of a madman – but it is now widely regarded as one of the most influe...
The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by Stravinsky written for the 1910 Paris season of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ballet is significant not only as the first international success of Stravinsky’s career, but also as the beginning of the collaboration between Diaghilev and Stravinsky that would also produce the acclaimed ballet...
Petrushka tells the story of the loves and jealousies of three puppets and brings music, dance and design together in a unified whole. The work was originally intended for the concert hall until Diaghilev persuaded Stravinsky to turn the music into a ballet. The music is characterized by the so-called Petrushkachord (consisting of C major and F sha...
During the 1950s Stravinsky gave his creative imagination one final jolt by embracing Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique known as Serialism in late masterpieces including the ballet Agon. Critics hailed its premiere, by the New York City Ballet in December 1957, as a landmark in modern dance history, “a living textbook on the art of blending music ...
Apollois one of the landmark ballets of the 20th century. Stravinsky’s sublime ballet score was made popular by Diaghilev’s legendary Ballet Russes, featuring eye-catching costumes by Coco Chanel and groundbreaking choreography from George Balanchine. This dramatic and powerful ballet premiered in Paris in 1928 and was Balanchine’s first major coll...
Oedipus Rexwas written towards the beginning of Stravinsky’s neoclassical period, and is considered one of his best works from this phase of his career. This opera-oratorio is based on Sophocles’s tragedy on the downfall of King Oedipus, who discovers that he has betrayed his people by murdering his father and marrying his mother.
The Symphony of Psalmsis a three-movement choral symphony composed by Stravinsky in 1930, during his neoclassical period, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony derives its name from the use of Psalm texts in the choral parts.
Stravinsky’s most popular opera, The Rake’s Progress, sets a libretto written by WH Auden and Chester Kallman based loosely on William Hogarth’s paintings and engravings. The Rake’s Progress was inspired by Mozart’s operas and forms part of Stravinsky’s output of neoclassical works.
The Soldier’s Tale is a rhythmically exhilarating theatre piece, scored for seven instruments, three actors and dancers, about a soldier who sells his violin to the Devil in return for a book that will make him wealthy. Stravinsky had recently discovered jazz, through sheet music his friend Ernest Ansermet had brought from America, and insisted tha...
The Symphonies Of Wind Instruments is a concert work written by Stravinsky in 1920 for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. It is a defining work, dedicated to the memory of Debussy, which Stravinsky described as “an austere ritual which is unfolded in terms of short litanies between different groups of homogeneous instruments.” Even for ...
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Stravinsky studied composition under composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1902 to 1908, Stravinsky's Feu d'artifice being his last piece composed under Rimsky-Korsakov. During this time, Stravinsky completed his first full composition, the Symphony in E-flat major, catalogued Op. 1.
K No.OpusNameYearKN01–Tarantella1898KN03–The Storm Cloud1902KN02–c. 1902K001–1904Composer: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker Conductor: Herbert von Karajan Recorded in: 1969 Symphony in C, written between 1938 and...
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Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies by Igor Stravinsky released in 1991. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Although most of his recordings were made with studio musicians, he also worked with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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