Igor Stravinsky’s ongoing significance and influence, a half century after his death, is reassessed

from a safe objective distance. Music includes Funeral Song, Requiem Canticles, The Rite of Spring.

Stravinsky’s relationship with the stage, both ballet and opera, is examined, including collaborations with

Diaghilev, Auden and Balanchine. Music includes Pulcinella, The Rake’s Progress, Apollo.

The roles of myth, faith and memory in Stravinsky’s works is explored, from Russian chant to Greek classicism.

Music includes Mavra, Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex.

This episode looks at Stravinsky’s works created after his relocation to the New World, embracing

jazz, serialism and Disney. Music includes Agon, Ebony Concerto, The Rite of Spring.

Stravinsky’s interaction with composers shaping the Modern Age is explored, from Debussy, Prokofieff and Bartók through to contemporary music. Music includes De Tijd (Andriessen), Jeux (Debussy), Mikrokosmos (Bartók), Scythian Suite (Prokofieff), Metamorphoses (Britten), Petrushka (Stravinsky).

Jonathan Cross is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oxford. His acclaimed volume The Stravinsky Legacy was published in 1998, he is editor of and contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky (2003), and author of a critical biography of Stravinsky for Reaktion Press (2015). He was Series Consultant to the Philharmonia Orchestra for the 2016 series Stravinsky: Myths and Rituals, which won the Sky Arts Classical Music Award 2017. He is also a Research Associate at IRCAM, Paris, and an elected Member of the Academy of Europe.

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