Andrew von Oeyen Plays Stravinsky's Petrushka
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka (Petrushka: Three Movements for Piano) has its roots in the second of Igor Stravinsky’s (1882-1971) three full-fledged ballet scores that were written at the behest of his mentor, the impresario Sergei Diaghilev. After the immense success of his first ballet, The Firebird, Stravinsky had intended to compose another ballet next, The Rite of Spring – but Diaghilev instead urged him to…
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