Simon Rattle has recorded the Russian master’s fairytale ballet twice before, but this version has considerable gains, not least in Rattle’s engaging half hour talk about it
To the average listener, Stravinsky's works like the Firebird may sound atonal, but it is not. I'm aware of bi-tonality and modes and such, but Stravinsky doesn't seem to stick to one specific scale.…
I'm looking for classical works similar in spirit to Stravinsky's Apollon Musagète. What I especially love about it is its purity, restraint, neoclassical elegance, and the luminous writing for strings.…
