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Work: Symphony of Psalms

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ComposerStravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeOrchestral
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ManchesterThe Hallé - Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms

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Barry, Chabrier, Adès, Coll, Stravinsky
Thomas Adès; Kirill Gerstein; The Hallé Choir

ClevelandSchumann’s Second Symphony

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Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schumann
The Cleveland Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Blossom Festival Chorus

MadridOrcam - Geometrías sonoras

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Stravinsky, Elgar, Shostakovich
Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid; Eduardo Strausser; Narek Hakhnazaryan
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Koussevitzky at 150: Tanglewood celebrates

Andris Nelsons, Paul Lewis, Boston Symphony Orchestra © Hilary Scott
The closing concert for the triple anniversary of Serge Koussevitzky and the BSO takes a fittingly ritualistic turn.
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Stars, slapstick and soul: Martha Argerich joins the Rotterdam Phil

Alex Elia, Martha Argerich and the Rotterdam Philharmonic © Harold de Smet
Soaring choral music precedes the arrival of Martha Argerich for a daredevil account of Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with RPhO Principal Trumpet, Alex Elia. 
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Showing Orff: a rip-roaring Carmina Burana from Yamada and the CBSO

Kazuki Yamada © BBC | Sisi Burn
Psalm 150 and a collection of outrageous 13th-century texts by boisterous young clergyman collide at the Royal Albert Hall in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Prom. 
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ParisBarbara Hannigan conducts Ligeti and Stravinsky

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Ligeti, Stravinsky
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Guillemette Daboval; Chœur de Radio France; Barbara Hannigan
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“A look in the mirror”: Stravinsky and Neoclassicism

Igor Stravinsky in the 1920s © Public domain
Pulcinella was my discovery of the past, the epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible. It was a backward look of course – the first of many love-affairs in that direction – but it was a look in the mirror too.”