Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Stravinsky's works fall conveniently into three periods. The first, his "Russian" period, lasts until just before the First World War. The key works ...

Howard Goodall:Russian music had arrived. And in the early 1900s it was to go into overdrive, thanks to the startling music of a young prince among composers, Igor Stravinsky. Howard Goodall ...

His creative life ranged from his origins as a late Russian Romantic composer to ... National Ballet re-enact The Rite of Spring Igor Stravinsky was brought up in St Petersburg, where his father ...

Now settled in Paris, the Sudeikins renewed their association with Diaghilev, and that is how, at dinner in a Montmartre restaurant in February 1921, Vera met Igor Stravinsky - during the course ...