Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Stravinsky was an active concert pianist and referred to the keyboard as the “fulcrum” of his compositional ...

This fabulous two-CD set offers so many pleasures it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with the music, which, apart from the Duo Concertant, consists of Stravinsky’s arrangements of his own ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought ...

Tevot (2007), written for the Berlin Philharmonic, is Adès’s largest orchestral work. It shows a Sibelian mastery of development and transition – even when the harmonic material is, like Sibelius, ...

A decade after Stravinsky’s death in New York (my feature last month mistakenly asserted Venice), Alexander Goehr observed how his popular reputation was founded on scarcely more than a handful of ...

The Soviet Union’s stance on the Berne Convention made it difficult in the 1920s for Stravinsky to collect royalties on his most successful works. Writing music for himself to play brought performance ...

Stravinsky’s name is so inextricably associated these days with landmark scores in the fields of ballet, opera, choral and orchestral music, that his gifts as a pianist tend to be overlooked. During ...

The violinist Samuel Dushkin, Stravinsky's collaborator, wrote that when arranging some of his more popular pieces for violin and piano the composer seemed "to go back to the essence of the music and ...

Song of the Volga Boatmen (Chant des bataliers) Steven Osborne, Piano Igor Stravinsky, Composer Ilan Volkov, Conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments BBC ...

Stravinsky’s piano music is a well-kept secret. Despite a sizable and distinctive output, only the Three Movements from “Petrushka” for solo piano — the composer’s own transcription of his ballet — is ...