Episode 1: Stravinsky Today

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.

Are you discovering Stravinsky for the first time, or returning in 2021 to the music of a lifelong favourite? We invite you to listen to this new series of audio podcasts, presented by his publisher Boosey & Hawkes in honour of the 50th anniversary of his death. Each of the five short episodes is hosted by Jonathan Cross of Oxford University and author of a recent critical biography of the composer.