Did You Hear About how Stravinsky came to write a ballet for elephants?
Finding his feet in his newly adopted country, the Russian composer was game for anything.
June 23, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends modern masterpieces from the Met, Rattle’s damnable Faust, and a seven-year-old Yo-Yo.
May 29, 2020
In Your Living Room: Opera
Clive Paget recommends rarities by Stravinsky and Strauss, plus Barrie Kosky’s take on Mussorgsky.
May 22, 2020
Rogues’ Gallery: Twenty composers who did things they shouldn’t
A candid assessment of those who went down and those who got off scot free.
April 30, 2020
Did you hear about the composer who made art from noise?
Luigi Russolo’s crazy crackling and hissing machines even got Igor Stravinsky going.
March 25, 2020
Pietari Inkinen makes his SSO debut
The sought-after Finnish conductor discusses Stravinsky's "earth-shattering" Rite of Spring, and the SSO's new Symphony Hour concerts.
February 19, 2020
Review: LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Yuja Wang (Lincoln Center, New York)
Yuja and the Dude leave New York a calling card from LA.
November 27, 2019
Review: Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring (Peacock Contemporary Dance Company, Brisbane Festival)
Redefined from an Eastern perspective, this Rite is radically different.
September 27, 2019
Review: Stravinsky & Rimsky-Korsakov (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko)
Vasily Petrenko kills two Russian birds with one Liverpudlian CD.
April 15, 2019
Review: Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale (Roger Waters, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Musicians)
Waters’ multiple personalities bring Stravinsky to life.
April 8, 2019
Review: Stravinsky: Perséphone (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
Salonen celebrates Stravinsky at his most lushly neoclassical.
December 13, 2018
Reissues Round-Up: Salonen’s Stunning Stravinsky
Sony reissues the Finn in full, plus birthday boy Bernstein comes complete on DG.
November 8, 2018
Review: Stravinsky’s Firebird (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)
Generally well-played, if not setting the world on fire.
October 26, 2018