Stephen Walsh 's penultimate conversation with Stravinsky's personal assistant and friend, Robert Craft.
5: Balconies and Blotting Paper
Many of Stravinsky's later works were written for the churches and halls of Venice. In this week's conversation, recorded on location in Venice, Robert Craft rediscovers the nightclub where Stravinsky composed on the "pink" piano and remembers the premiere in St Mark 's
Basilica of the Canticum
Sacrum, the choral work
Stravinsky dedicated to the city.
Including excerpts from the Canticum Sacrum, Chorale
Variations on "Von Himmel hoch", Threni,
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum and Abraham and Isaac.
A Soundscape production