Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

The music of Igor Stravinsky, from the driving, complex, madly difficult rhythms of his 1913 “Rite of Spring” to the neoclassical austerity of his 1928 “Apollo,” is closely tied to the development of ...

Stravinsky 50 includes a five-and-half-hour River of Music exploring Stravinsky’s genius with a curated flow of fifty pieces - from celebrated works to lesser-known gems Stravinsky is one of the most ...

George Benjamin conducted this meticulously programmed and beautifully executed concert of his own Palimpsests alongside music by Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel ...

In 1918, Igor Stravinsky encountered jazz for the first time, when conductor Ernest Ansermet brought some sheet music back to Paris after an American tour. Inspired, he wrote Ragtime, a marvellous ...

Fifty years after the composer’s death, Riccardo Chailly and Teodor Currentzis talk to Peter Quantrill about what can – and can’t – be learnt from Stravinsky’s own recordings Riccardo Chailly was 18 ...

Igor Stravinsky was still in his 20s when a dream of a girl dancing herself to death in a pagan ritual inspired him to come up with the thunderous, revolutionary Rite Of Spring. An avant garde ballet ...

In his fascinating new hour-long documentary, “Stravinsky in Hollywood,” made for European television and now released on DVD by C-Major, Marco Capalbo begins with the oft-quoted statistic that Igor ...