From the Russian fairy-tale enchantment of The Firebird to the austere ritual at the end of his Requiem Canticles composed over half a century later, Stravinsky's extraordinary creativity embraces a... more

May whoever listens to this music never experience the insult to which it was subjected and of which I was the witness in the Theâtre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, Spring 1913', wrote Stravinsky... more

Oedipus Rex, based on Sophocles' tragedy, is an established twentieth-century classic. Employing a speaker, male chorus and orchestra, it represents Stravinsky' 1920s neo-classicism at it's peak.