Igor Stravinsky, an unclassifiable composer, was accustomed to music from a very early age in particularly thanks to his father who was a famous bass at the St. Petersburg Opera. From Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, one of his teachers, he retained orchestral luxuriance and his first works were imbued with the shimmering colours of Russian folklore. His encounter with Diaghilev, who commissioned The Firebird ballet (1910), would determine the young composer’s future. Stravinsky began to travel and his insolent and disconcerting art made a name for him beyond the Russian frontiers.
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Easter Festival Baden-Baden
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Verbier Festival 2022
Concours de Genève — International Music Compet...
Verbier Festival 2022
Les Siècles at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Budapest Festival Orchestra
New Generation Piano Recital at the Fondation L...
With Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, and Esa-Pekk...
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
London Symphony Orchestra
Linus Fellbom (stage direction), William Morgan...
Royal Albert Hall
With Christoph Eschenbach and Renée Fleming
London Symphony Orchestra
The Historic Stravinsky Memorial Concert, April...
Berliner Philharmoniker: 2011 New Year's Concert
Archives from the 1960s
