Stravinsky Duo | Jazz review

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring gets a jazzed-up reinterpretation packed with catchy hooksIt is thrilling to hear Stravinsky in a ­Dalston jazz dive with a beer in your hand. Pianist Will Butterworth and drummer Dylan Howe's version of the first part of The Rite of Spring digs out Igor's Slavic jazz soul without losing the work's essence.They base their arrangement on the composer's own piano reduction, taking inspiration from Bernstein's subsequent version while also adding ­developments ...

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