John Ringer - Orchestral Masterpieces - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John Ringer - L'oiseau Du Feu / Violin Concerto [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/16/2005

From the Russian fairy-tale enchantment of The Firebird to the austere ritual at the end of his Requiem Canticles composed over half a century later, Stravinsky's extraordinary creativity embraces a range of styles and tributes to composers of the past. He started under the guidance of Rimsky-Korsakov in pre-revolutionary St Petersburg and ended his life in America having made a very special kind of peace with the rigorous (serial) techniques of Schoenberg and Webern. Yet his homage's are always heartfelt, and he always remains himself truly the most comprehensive and wide-ranging musical genius of the twentieth century.

John Ringer - Variations / Symphony of Psalms / L'oisau de Feu [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/30/2003