Stravinsky and the Divine: New Perspectives on the Late Works

This book grew out of a long-standing fascination with Igor Stravinsky's late works, music that has often been regarded as austere, enigmatic and even inaccessible. Yet for those willing to enter its world, compositions such as Threni and Requiem Canticles reveal an extraordinary artistic landscape in which order, faith, memory, and eternity are woven together. For many years these works were discussed mainly in terms of their serial technique and modernist language. Stravinsky himself, how...