R3MC: Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles




Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics show

Summary: 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.