Steven Osborne and Ilan Volkov follow their discs devoted to Britten's works for piano and orchestra, and to Tippett's, with an equivalent survey of Stravinsky. Both the Concerto for Piano and Wind ...

Stravinsky’s diverse output for piano is headed here by the sophisticated Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and the gritty Movements for Piano and Orchestra. Bavouzet is sprightly and ...

Petrushka Paul Jacobs, Piano Ursula Oppens, Piano Igor Stravinsky, Composer (3) Pieces Igor Stravinsky, Composer Paul Jacobs, Piano Ursula Oppens, Piano Concerto for Two Pianos Igor Stravinsky, ...

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 ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Quatre Etudes (Four Studies), op. 7 for Piano Le cinq doigts (The Five ...

Stravinsky went to his grave believing his early Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, his first work performed in public, to be “fortunately lost”. He recalled it as an “inept imitation of late Beethoven”.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...