The site enables audiences to access Stravinsky’s story from all angles and contextualise his extraordinary life within an equally extraordinary century. Stravinsky’s life unfurls as an interactive timeline full of new films, animated maps, archive photography, world events and anecdotes, along with links to book tickets and to recordings of the concerts on BBC iPlayer. Our award-winning, in-house Digital Team has produced this interactive documentary website, launched 18 April 2016, to accompany the Stravinsky: Myths&Rituals festival.

The Philharmonia Orchestra is committed to sharing what we do in innovative ways, both on and off the platform, and especially online. Of discovery across Stravinsky’s music, from the early Russian ballets to the late, great works of the American years.Īll of the Philharmonia’s concerts will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. The Philharmonia Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, leads a journey In this 2016 festival, Stravinsky: Myths&Rituals, based in and around London’s Southbank Centre, Primitive and religious ritual practices - Stravinsky remade these tales to speak forcefully of his own age. Taking inspiration from ancient myths and rituals - from Russian folklore, via the stories of the Greeks, to

STORYTELLING LIES AT THE HEART OF THE MUSIC OF IGOR STRAVINSKY.

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