Donald Macleod explores Igor Stravinsky's life through his five symphonies – from Russian folk melodies to American cool. Today, his Symphonies of Wind Instruments. He's undisputedly one of the ...

As a fan of those large scale compositions called “symphonies,” you have arrived at a crossroads. You can easily identify Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony by the first four notes (da-da-da-DAAAAH!), you are ...

Simon Rattle has recorded all three of these works by Stravinsky before – The Rite of Spring twice previously, in 1977 and 1987, with the National Youth Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony, ...

Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Which may explain why the ...

Michael Tilson Thomas recently described the San Francisco Symphony’s Stravinsky festival as a “connect the dots” event. Friday’s terrific program was just that. The raw materials for Stravinsky’s ...

Composer-Con-Ductors a r e beginning to appear on records, and although many a con-certgoer can testify that a composer is not necessarily a good director of his own music, the records prepared by the ...

The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus (LJS&C) will perform Beethoven, Mozart and two works by Stravinsky, March 17-18, in its fourth concert of the “Stravinsky Circus!” season. Music Director Steven Schick ...

Symphony in 3 Movements Galicia Symphony Orchestra Dima Slobodeniouk, Conductor Symphonies of Wind Instruments Galicia Symphony Orchestra Dima Slobodeniouk, Conductor Symphony in C Galicia Symphony ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will present a nine-performance European tour, their eighth ...