Despite first-rate playing, the young conductor with the orchestral world at his feet fails to deliver the drama behind the vivid gestures With three major European orchestras already in his charge, ...

The latest instalment in Thierry Fischer's series examining the music of the Ballets Russes juxtaposes Stravinsky's Petrushka with a sequence of tone poems by Liadov – Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake ...

Stravinsky first achieved international fame with these works, which were commissioned for – and first performed by – Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Premiered during an extraordinary period ...

Tom Service takes you on a journey into the extraordinary world of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, based on an archetypal puppet myth that shares the story of Punch.