Michael Berkeley introduces a concert given last Sunday at St
John's, Smith Square, London by the BBC Singers exploring some of the farther reaches of Stravinsky's work, from the devotional sacred music which marked the revival of his
Orthodox faith to the Introitus written in memory of his friend TS Eliot and the farmyard burlesque Renard. Jeremy Summerly talks to the nurse who was with Stravinsky when he died.
Susan Roberts (soprano), Hugh Hetherington and Mark Tucker (tenors), Patrick Donnelly and Nicolas Cavallier (baritones),
BBC Singers, Matrix Ensemble, conductor Robert Ziegler
Stravinsky Introitus ; Four Russian Peasant Songs; Cantata on Old
English Texts; The Dove Descending Breaks the Air; Pater Noster; Credo;
Ave Maria; Renard Producer Antony Pitts