Stop-motion-animation aficionados should seek out this rare Polish work about a sly fox who outwits everyone around him (you can see it in full onYouTube). It’s been name-checked in recent years by none other than Wes Anderson, who called it a primary influence on hisFantastic Mr. Fox...
As emphasized by Mexican artist Jay de la Cueva’s video “Perdóname,” borrowing the words of Russian composer and conductor, Igor Stravinsky: “It’s not enough to hear music; you also have to see it.” So without further ado, here are 18 of our favorite music videos of 2024. 18...
Published in 1913, the year Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring had its Paris premiere, “Zone” is chronologically the last poem in the collection to have been written. The poet was thirty-three years old, the age of Dante embarking on his tour of the afterlife. The poem doesn’t so much ...
16.The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) 1195Igor StravinskyUnsorted Orchestral1913 17.The Planets, Op. 32 1138Gustav HolstUnsorted Orchestral1916 Top Followed ComposersAll Beethoven Ludwig van 9852 Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus 9473 Bach Johann Sebastian ...
formation of the Olympic rings was playfully acknowledged in the closing ceremony. The evening culminated with tennis legend Maria Sharapova leading the torch relay, which concluded with the cauldron lighting by Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak, under the stirring sounds of Igor Stravinsky'sFirebird...
The current five-parter on Stravinsky – a What Hi-Fi? favourite for testing hi-fi – is fascinating. Listen to Composer of the Week Sound of Cinema (Image credit: BBC) The last of our BBC trio is Matthew Sweet’s (the journalist, not the musician) weekly exploration of the world of...
Lord of Lords features a take on Stravinsky's "Firebird" featuring chaotic strings and a synth in the lead! Dan Boeckner, Wolf Parade: Photo by Meqo Sam Cecil 1. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles I love this record. It basically hits all my pleasure centers. The first time I dropped ...
We knew we were in for a unique performance when the soundboards rolled out onto the Meyerhoff stage on March 24. What followed was a groundbreaking, mind-blowing, and exhilarating version of Igor Stravinsky’sThe Soldier’s Tale, with beat wizards the Baltimore Boom Bap Society mixing the sy...
He daringly employs a traditional orchestra and then augments it with an exotic collection of instrumentation – most famously, stainless steel mixing bowls, but also a brass slide whistle, conch shells, water drop bars and a Brazilian cuica used to emulate the apes’ sounds. Echoing Stravinsky ...
In the end, my survey consists of four new albums that I listened to on CDs, one YouTube segment and one boxed set, a re-release of old recordings. YouTube Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Stravinsky: Les Noces; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin; soloists: MusicAeterna (chorus and orchestra); ...