Amazing pieces of classical music - 9

Stravinsky's so-called Greek ballets offer a good way to approach his entire music. Please listen now to Markevitch's 1964 performance of "Apollon Musagète K. 48: X. Apotheosis" with the LSO. The two Igors disliked each other, and Markevitch considered the older Stravinsky merely a Russian emigree, or rather, the early version of today's refugee. Yet, in my view, his vision of the work is closer to Stravinsky's own 1965 performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and considerably superior to, for example, Craft's with the same LSO more than thirty years later. Apollon Musagète is a name that refers to the Greek god Apollo's role in guiding and inspiring the Muses, who are the goddesses of the arts and sciences. The heart of this work lies indeed more in 1928 and its neoclassicism than in the 1947 revision, and the apotheosis (sic) here is indeed oppressive. Personally, I sense the clouds of darkness moving across the sky rather too clearly

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