Igor Stravinsky

Stravinsky began this symphony in France and completed it after moving to the United States. Its four movements adopt familiar symphonic outlines while reshaping their rhythms, phrase lengths and instrumental...

Stravinsky assembled this wartime symphony from materials with different origins, including music connected with an unrealized film project. Piano is prominent in the outer movements, while harp has a distinctive...

Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms places the chorus within an unusual orchestra that omits violins and violas while adding two pianos. Three connected movements set Latin psalm texts through austere chordal writing,...

The Firebird established Stravinsky's close connection with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Its Russian fairy-tale scenario follows Prince Ivan, the magical Firebird, and the defeat of the threatening Kastchei. The score...

The Rite of Spring was conceived as a ballet about imagined ancient rites culminating in a sacrificial dance. Stravinsky developed the scenario with Nicholas Roerich, and the original production was choreographed by...