Bela Bartok may be one of the giants of 20th century music, but compared with an urbane, sociable figure like Stravinsky he can seem strangely colourless. “A fine-nerved scholar, possessed of ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. All things Hungarian are in fashion this year. Only a week after the double celebrations to mark Hungary’s presidency ...
The “Infernal Dance” goes on. But in this the second instalment of the Philharmonia Orchestra’s well-named Bartok series it was Stravinsky who ultimately called the tune and dictated the footwork. A ...
The Infernal Dance from The Firebird which, along with the rest of Stravinsky’s radically innovative score, transformed ballet music in Europe a century ago. Here it is performed at the 2019 BBC Proms ...
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