This week’s program focuses on the deep and long-standing relationship that Igor Stravinsky had with the New York Philharmonic. We hear the composer conduct his dramatic work Perséphone, as well as performances of the Scherzo fantastique, The Rite of Spring, and excerpts from The Firebird.
Stravinsky at the Philharmonic
Igor Stravinsky conducting
Playlist
All works composed by Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique
Pierre Boulez, conductor
The Firebird (1910) (excerpts)
David Robertson, conductor
Perséphone
Richard Robinson, tenor; Vera Zorina, narrator; Westminster Symphonic Choir; Igor Stravinsky, conductor
The Rite of Spring
Alan Gilbert, conductor
