http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-42-igor-fyodorovitch-stravinsky/topic-rss.do Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23766569-slim-pickings-in-the-rite-of-spring.do Michael Keegan-Dolan is the latest to try his hand at The Rite Of Spring although he is one of the least successful. 2009-11-09T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23741049-the-british-youth-opera-stages-the-stars-of-the-future.do The British Youth Opera offers young singers a opportunity to be professional but without the pressure and the humdrum routine 2009-09-06T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23733145-harrison-birtwistles-brilliance-is-unmasked-at-proms.do Placing Harrison Birtwistle alongside Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is eccentric, even perverse programming but that’s what the Proms are for 2009-08-17T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23730753-emotion-milked-to-gratifiying-effect-with-karabits.do The latest instalment of the Stravinsky ballet cycle was offered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits. 2009-08-10T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23724934-stravinsky-season-is-kept-in-czech.do The prom by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek began the sequence of Stravinsky ballets. 2009-07-27T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23698829-pick-of-the-proms---from-bollywood-to-barenboim.do No other festival offers so much for so little money. Here is a round-up of the concerts not to be missed as part of this year's Proms festival. 2009-05-26T11:35:21Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23688744-the-world-goes-coco-chanel-crazy.do She liberated women from the corset. Her friends included Cocteau, Picasso and Chaplin. No wonder Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is the muse for the coolest names in fashion 2009-05-11T09:15:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23687481-bold-move-from-valery-gergiev-and-lso.do The programming of Valery Gergiev's concert with the LSO at the Barbican Hall was bold but also astute. 2009-05-07T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23680620-teacher-writes-finale-to-cannes-in-school-hols.do Goodbye Knole Park, hello the South of France. The Croisette is some distance from Sevenoaks, the Palais du Festival some way from the staff room and closing the Cannes film festival the kind of good fortune which screenwriters the world over dream about 2009-04-24T14:01:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23581847-ads-pulls-the-strings.do An attentive Kings Place audience burst into whoops at the close of an all-Stravinsky recital which launched this week’s Aldeburgh on Tour series. 2008-11-04T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23580143-flowing-blonde-on-cello-in-brodsky-quartet.do The Brodsky Quartet play with familiar empathy. Three of them have been together since student days nearly three decades ago. 2008-10-30T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23559570-unbashed-romanticism-in-oedipus-rex.do Festival Hall's gala event celebrated Esa-Pekka Salonen's first concert as principal conductor of the Philharmonia. 2008-09-23T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23552247-jurowski-not-so-slow-to-ctach-on.do An ogre from Russian folklore met himself face to face in the LPO's Prom conducted by Vladimir Jurowksi. 2008-09-07T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23525694-knight-of-passion-in-the-park-with-iolanta.do Wonderful though the music is, characterisation is wooden in Tchaikovsky's one act Iolanta, says Fiona Maddocks. 2008-08-03T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23512669-hell-comes-to-hollywood-in-rakes-progress.do Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress boasts such an ingenious conceit as to annihilate quibbles. 2008-07-07T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23475228-playing-into-spring.do The National Youth Orchestra's rendition of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring seemed to jolt the audience to life and the gifted teenageres proved their worth at the Barbican Hall concert. 2008-04-06T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23426791-composers-don-disguises.do The Britten Sinfonia's performance was precise and danceable, where shared pleasure in music-making was worth more than merely superficial gloss. 2007-12-11T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23423849-slow-progress.do The Rake's Progress features an alternating cast, but an over-choreographed production did no-one any favours. 2007-11-29T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23408481-those-classical-meets-jazz-blues.do The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra sounded like fish out of water in Marcus Roberts' Rhapsody in Blue at the Proms. 2007-08-14T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23405172-triumph-on-epic-scale.do Vassily Sinaisky shaped this large-scale canvas with masterly command, drawing superb playing from the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms 2007. 2007-07-19T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23402075-stravinsky-in-cyberspace.do Rites at the Festival Hall is a mixed-media masterpiece featuring some astonishing digital wizadry. 2007-06-26T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23400761-the-thrill-of-prokofiev.do Valery Gergiev conducted a thrilling performance of Prokofiev's rarely heard Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. 2007-06-14T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23390931-short-on-thrills.do Valery Gergiev might be a regular visitor to the London concert scene, but Barry Millington warns against prejudging his music. The Russian conductor is not as predictable as he makes out. 2007-03-29T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23378267-experiment-pays-off-for-lpo.do The LPO's latest programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall featured three works that all engage with the past in different ways, plus a world premiere. 2006-12-14T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23372751-clark-gets-everything-rite.do The roller-coaster ride that is British dancer-choreographer Michael Clark's career has taken an upward surge at the Barbican as he continues his trilogy of works to the giant Stravinsky scores. 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23372048-cosy-makeover-for-pulcinella.do However well or averagely they are performed, a mixed bill of Stravinsky ballets always pulls you in, especially when they're from the Diaghilev era, says Sarah Frater. 2006-10-24T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23370992-a-faune-in-combat-with-the-present.do D'un soir un jour opens with a silent re-enactment of L'Apres-midi d'un faune, only with a woman rather than a man. 2006-10-16T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23369890-great-start-to-a-leap-year.do The company shone as the Royal Ballet leapt into action at the start of its 2006/07 season. But it was the men, says Sarah Frater, who dominated. 2006-10-05T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23363920-new-yorkers-miss-out.do Proms replacements for the security-stranded Orchestra of St Lukes - the City of London Sinfonia - perform admirably at short notice. 2006-08-17T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23363705-bolshoi-triple-lacks-dazzle.do This summer's Bolshoi visit will surely be remembered for Alexei Ratmansky's The Bright Stream. Sadly, you can't imagine anyone wanting to see this triple bill again, says Sarah Frater. 2006-08-14T23:00:00Z