The Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was ... a most noble carriage’, and Elgar paints a similarly vivid portrait of the man in his witty, stirring masterpiece.

What's so great about Stravinsky? Well, The Rite of Spring. Obviously. If you know only one work by Igor Stravinsky, then it’s likely to be this. A landmark of modernism as world changing as ...