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'Music,' said Stravinsky 'is essentially powerless to express anything at all'. But for all his deliberately misleading protestations Stravinsky, long-exiled from his homeland, often tapped a deep and deeply personal vein of nostalgia in his music, never more so than as he entered his old age and lived furthest away from Russia itself.

The third of Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra's all-Stravinsky Series 'Myths & Rituals' is a chance to hear a sequence of rarely performed late, great religious and memorial works whose austere sound-world nevertheless conveys their composer's longings and faith, both of which which he was loath to express in any other medium.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from St John's Smith Square, London.

Stravinsky:
Requiem Canticles
Introitus (TS Eliot in Memoriam)
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
Mass
Elegy for JFK
Cantata

H茅l猫ne H茅brard (mezzo soprano)
Allan Clayton (tenor)
David Soar (bass)
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).