Kate Molleson explores the legends and lore of Igor Stravinsky
Music Featured:
Rite of Spring Fireworks Three Movements from Petrushka (Russian Dance) The Firebird: Infernal Dance The Rite of Spring, Part 2: The Sacrifice Three Pieces for String Quartet (Excentrique) Four Russian Peasant Songs Song of the Nightingale (The Mechanical Nightingale) Renard (excerpt) Soldier’s Tale (excerpt) Les Noces: The Wedding Feast Pulcinella Suite (Sinfonia) Suite Italienne Sonata for Piano Symphonies of Wind Instruments Octet Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments Oedipus Rex(excerpt) Serenade in A for piano (Romanza) Orpheus (excerpt) Apollo (excerpt) Duo Concertant Otche nash Symphony of Psalms Mass (Santus) Ode (iii Epitaph) In Memoriam Dylan Thomas Requiem Canticles
Presented by Kate Molleson Produced by Martin Williams for BBC Audio Wales and West
For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vld7
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)
Joseph Haydn
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
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