First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, which Stravinsky composed on his return to France after spending the First World War in exile in Switzerland. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Stravinsky's unique, darkly scored Symphony of Psalms and his virtuosic Violin Concerto. The former was the culmination of a return to Orthodox Christianity. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod focuses on Stravinsky's effervescent Symphony in C, his most 'classical' work, which he completed after emigrating to America in 1940. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores the Symphony in Three Movements, Stravinsky's first major American work, written in the 1940s as the Allied troops gradually drove back the Axis forces. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores Stravinky's early life and his precocious, Russian-inflected Symphony in E flat, which was dubbed by its young composer as Symphony No 1. Show more
