{"title":"Igor Stravinsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of musical modernism in the 20th century. Stravinsky's creative journey was dynamic, as he freely adapted historical and personal models to his own creative needs. His works showcased a dynamic and varied rhythmic dimension, with interval elaboration playing a structural role. He used melodic cells that were reassembled and broken down with great variety and freedom, resulting in episodes of rhythmic-metric asymmetry and polyrhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStravinsky's compositions also featured discordant sections, the use of octotonic scale and modal scales. He wrote music for various instrumental and vocal combinations, ranging from large orchestras to small ensembles or solo instruments. In the 1950s, he began recording his works himself to leave a precise sound testimony of his creative intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA citizen of France since 1934 and the USA since 1945, Igor Stravinsky left an indelible mark on world musical culture through his innovative approach to composition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-firebird-2","title":"The Firebird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Firebird\u003c\/i\u003e is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of  Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses  for its owner. The Firebird’s mortal and supernatural elements are distinguished with a system of leitmotifs placed in the harmony dubbed  “leit-harmony”. Stravinsky intentionally used many specialist techniques in the orchestra, including ponticello, col legno, flautando, glissando,  and flutter-tonguing. Set in the evil immortal Koschei’s castle, the ballet follows Prince Ivan, who battles Koschei with the help of the magical Firebird.  Recorded in 1961 by The Columbia Symphony Orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Passion","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50379058544971,"sku":"2221922","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71CG4F-Y3ZL._UF8941000_QL80__6e96a2b3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726174942"},{"product_id":"late-music-sensual-musical-radicalism","title":"Late Music  Sensual Musical Radicalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4CD box set\u003c\/strong\u003e of the radical later music of \u003cstrong\u003eIgor Stravinsky\u003c\/strong\u003e. Including selections from the music that inspired him, from \u003cem\u003eRavel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDebussy\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eStockhausen\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJohn Cage\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In the course of his long, and abundantly creative life, Igor Stravinsky produced a highly personal body of work, which seems paradoxically enough, to sum up and embrace all of music itself. From primitive folk art to highly sophisticated serialism, from rarefied church music to outspoken jazz. His textures go from the richest to the leanest. His spirit was both devout and irreverent. His music is, at once, tender and spiky, emotional but anti-romantic. It can be popular and esoteric, nationalistic or intercontinental. In this sense he was probably the most universal composer who ever lived.\" \u003c\/em\u003eLeonard Bernstein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1944 Stravinsky met 20-year old music student \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Craft\u003c\/strong\u003e, forging a deep friendship and creative partnership that would prove to be decisive in determining the composer’s musical direction. With his career at an impasse, Craft encouraged Stravinsky to re-evaluate the possibilities of 12-tone writing; introducing him to works by Schoenberg and Webern and to a generation of young composers with which he was scarcely familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStravinsky warmed to this new language and wondered if it might be applied it to something of his own. 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