Stravinskian

There's real savagery in the way in which he and the London Philharmonic remorselessly build Mars to its shattering climax, French wit in the scherzo-like qualities of Mercury and Uranus, and Stravinskian formality in the restraint of Saturn, and, although some conductors would make a bigger deal out of the central section of Jupiter, it's no bad thing that Jurowski doesn't.

Holst: The Planets – review Andrew Clements 2010

The music is by the often forbidding Richard Strauss, composing Stravinskian neo-classical orchestral arrangements of Couperin harpsichord pieces.

Mark Morris Night at the San Francisco Ballet sfmike 2009

The music is by the often forbidding Richard Strauss, composing Stravinskian neo-classical orchestral arrangements of Couperin harpsichord pieces.

Archive 2009-03-01 sfmike 2009

Memoria, a wind quintet that begins by bathing in the elegant yet mercurial textures of Debussy and Janacek and ends with a weirdly Stravinskian chorale (played with great panache by the Imani Winds), was both touching and unexpected.

Philip Roth���s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs 2007

Memoria, a wind quintet that begins by bathing in the elegant yet mercurial textures of Debussy and Janacek and ends with a weirdly Stravinskian chorale (played with great panache by the Imani Winds), was both touching and unexpected.

Philip Roth���s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs 2007

Julian Grant's music is attractive, and his mix of Stravinskian orchestral colors with mellifluous attic-style modal melodies works beautifully.

Odysseus Unwound! 2006

Julian Grant's music is attractive, and his mix of Stravinskian orchestral colors with mellifluous attic-style modal melodies works beautifully.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

Hurling Stravinskian rhythms at Schoenbergian harmonies, the young Boulez smashed the musical atom, releasing in the sonatina an explosion of musical violence, nervousness, and instability.

Unreconstructed Modernist 1995

One of them, given in New York during Stravinsky's first American tour in January 1925, appeared in translation in a German newspaper and apparently provoked both Schoenberg's anti-Stravinskian squib entitled "Der Restaurateur," and his little canon about "der kleine Modernsky" in Drei Satiren, op.

'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange Taruskin, Richard F. 1989

The finale includes a magnificent - and perilously chromatic - horn solo and a return of the vigorous, Stravinskian scoring of the first movement.

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