Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballets Russes, this dazzling piece brought overnight success to its composer. Based on a series of Russian fairy tales, Stravinsky's modern masterpiece is greatly admired for its brilliant orchestration and harmony, and it remains as popular today as at its 1910 premiere.

Igor Stravinsky's Three Pieces for solo clarinet, revised and edited by Nicholas Hare in 1993.

Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, this score is one the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the 20th century. General Note. Stage Directions. Instrumentation. All materials in English and French, newly translated for this edition.

Definitive original edition of Stravinsksy's score for the Ballets Russes masterpiece Petrushka. Finest inexpensive edition.

Simon Rattle conducts violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Berliner Philharmoniker in their annual Europa Konzert, recorded live at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.

Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jirí Kylián is set to Stravinsky's 'Les noces' and 'Symphony of Psalms', and Tôru Takemitsu's 'Torso'. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg.

The Kreutzer Quartet performs four 20th century pieces written for string quartet. The quartet, comprised of Peter Sheppard Skærved on violin, Mihailo Trandafilovski on violin, Morgan Goff on viola and Neil Heyde on cello, apply their talents to Stravinsky's 'Three Pieces for String Quartet' (1914), Lutoslawski's 'String Quartet' (1964), Ligeti's 'String Quartet No. 2' (1968) and Finnissy's 'Second String Quartet' (2007).

Pierre Boulez conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Daniel Barenboim in this opening concert from the Salzburg Festival of 2008. Featured works include Ravel's 'Valses nobles et sentimentales', Bartok's 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1' and Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite'.

A collection of films made by Tony Palmer for the long-running ITV culture series The South Bank Show, released to coincide with the programme's demise in 2009 after a lifespan of over 30 years. Films included are: 'Maria Callas: Callas', 'William Walton: At the Haunted End of the Day', 'Margot Fonteyn: Margot', 'Stravinsky: Once at a Border', 'Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was.', 'John Adams: Hail Bop! - A Portrait of John Adams', 'Renee Fleming: Miss Renee Fleming', 'Malcolm Arnold: Toward the Unknown Region', 'Henryk Gorecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', 'Berlioz: I, Berlioz' and 'Michael Crawford: The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford'.

Documentary about Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and his short-lived career in the film industry. The documentary features archive footage, movie clips from the 1940s and interviews with both the man himself and his assistant Robert Craft.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as they perform a selection of favourites at a summer picnic concert at the Berlin Waldbuhne in 2009.

One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.

Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs works by Elgar, Stravinsky, Wagner and Ligeti at the 2014 Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.