Melodia (Lacerda); Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet (Stravinsky); Abime des Oiseaux (Messiaen); Sonata for Clarinet (Cage); Fantasia (Santoro); Fantasy (Arnold ...
Toronto Star: Musical Moment: Listen to the TSO’s principal clarinetist perform the first movement from ‘Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet’
Musical Moment: Listen to the TSO’s principal clarinetist perform the first movement from ‘Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet’
Few amateur musicians have pieces written for them by famous composers. However, Stravinsky's Swiss patron - who helped establish the Russian composer in Paris - was a part-time clarinettist. This was ...
Camerata Pacifica‘s October program, played four times, includes Kazuo Fukushima’s “Mei, for Solo Flute” (1962); Sergei Rachmaninov‘s “Six Moments Musicaux, Opus 16” (1896); Igor Stravinsky‘s “Three ...
This week’s musical moment features two-time Juno award-winner and Grammy nominee Joaquin Valdepeñas, who joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra over 30 years ago as principal clarinet upon graduating ...
Stravinsky's compositional career is often divided into three main periods: his Russian period (1913–1920), his neoclassical period (1920–1951), and his serial period (1954–1968). During his Russian period, Stravinsky was heavily influenced by Russian styles and folklore.
Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life.
Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, on the Baltic coast near St. Petersburg, and spent the first 28 years of his life in what was then the capital of Tsarist Russia, with lengthy summer holidays in remote parts of the Empire or at German spas.