Igor Stravinsky - Late Music: Sensual Musical Radicalism4CD box set of the radical later music of Igor Stravinsky. In 1944 Stravinsky met 20 year old music student Robert Craft, forging a deep friendship and creative partnership that would prove to be decisive in determining the composer's musical direction. With his career at an impasse, Craft encouraged Stravinsky to re evaluate the possibilities of 12 tone writing; introducing him to works by Schoenberg and Webern and to a generation of young composers

performances with the Minnesota Orchestra

Soprano Véronique Gens appears also on Dynamic’s DVD Agrippina by Handel

composer and teacher from that period

and it's through this haze that they breathe new life into the music they love

' a term that came to mean a "complete range

including all the orchestral and chamber works

and character dances

Those members of the upper middle classes were the musical link and the sociological crossroads between Hausmusik and the concert hall

their extraordinarily detailed possibilities of characterisation

" a refreshing interpretation of Billy Joel's beloved composition

including the piano

Paterson/ Nashville Opera/ Williamson - Three Way