Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics
Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
10 minutes
First broadcast:Available for over a year
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, contains many of the hallmarks of his very earliest pieces. Show less