In a programme recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, Stephen Johnson explores the version of Stravinsky's Firebird suite from 1945, and begins by examining a work by one of Stravinsky's musical father ...

Here’s a video I had never seen before of Stravinsky conducting a Japanese orchestra in “The Firebird” Suite (1945 version) in 1959, when he was 77. As one commenter on YouTube says, OMG.

This was the first of his 3 ground-breaking scores which catapulted Stravinsky to superstardom. The basic story is of a young prince who saves the villagers from their evil sorcerer-king aided by a ...