Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Oct 20, 20129:32Music

Composer John Woolrich nominates Stravinsky's last completed work with orchestra, Requiem Canticles. Commentator Paul Griffiths explains how this sparsely scored "pocket requiem", written in 1966 in a modern serial style...

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