Feuer & Flamme

While hunting for the Firebird, Prince Ivan ends up in the garden of a magician, in whose magic tree he discovers the golden plumage. As a price for his freedom, the bird gives the prince a magic feather that will summon him when in danger. Igor Stravinsky tells how Ivan uses it and what the magician's dance of hell is all about in his ballet music "The Firebird". The "Norwegian Dances" sound no less spirited, for which Edvard Grieg used the pop...