Pride and avarice are the first and second of the Seven Deadly Sins. For the piano aficionado, therefore, the Philips label’s “Great Pianists of the 20th Century” — now 120 CDs strong and heading fast ...

On this 1984 recording, Stravinsky's celebrated ballets are rearranged for four-handed piano recital according to the composer's own transcriptions, originally used for rehearsals with Debussy. Under ...

The final concert of the 2014 Music Academy of the West season brought one of the world’s most distinguished composers not only to the hall but also to the podium, as Thomas Adès conducted his own ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

Here's a cracker. Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung are a celebrated piano duo (and man and wife). Their new album on Signum crams in a mix of repertoire and an amalgam of musical styles, with ...

There’s something about Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s music that makes you sit upright in a concert hall, concentrating on every note played by the orchestra and experiencing the gooseflesh in ...

This is about as attractive a programme for a single CD of Stravinsky’s music as could be devised. The inclusion of the ‘Chorale’ is particularly canny. Naxos doesn’t claim it as a first, but I’m not ...

This fabulous two-CD set offers so many pleasures it’s hard to know where to begin. Let’s start with the music, which, apart from the Duo Concertant, consists of Stravinsky’s arrangements of his own ...