The room › Artists › Igor Stravinsky
Where to start with Igor Stravinsky
Start with The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): II. The Firebird and Its Dance — The Rite of Spring, 1913. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 20 Igor Stravinsky tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 20 Igor Stravinsky tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 20 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
It is deep rather than broad: 20 tracks drawn from only 1 record.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under classical; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): II. The Firebird and Its Dance — The Rite of Spring, 1913. Of the 20 Igor Stravinsky tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
Only one entry point is offered for Igor Stravinsky. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Igor Stravinsky sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Igor Stravinsky's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| The Rite of Spring | 1913 | 20 |
Every Igor Stravinsky track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): I. Introduction | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): II. The Firebird and Its Dance | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): III. Variation of the Firebird | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): IV. The Princesses' Round | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): V. Infernal Dance of King Kashchei | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): VI. Lullaby | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): VII. Finale | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Adoration of the Earth. Introduction. Lento (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Dance of the Earth (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Game of Abduction (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Games of the Rival Tribes (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Procession of the Sage (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - Spring Rounds (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part One - The Augurs of Spring (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - Evocation of the Ancestors (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - Glorification of the Chosen Victim (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - Mystic Circles of the Young Girls (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - Ritual Action of the Ancestors (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) [1921 Version] | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
| The Rite of Spring (Scenes of Pagan Russia in Two Parts): Part Two - The Sacrifice. Introduction. Largo (1921 Version) | The Rite of Spring | 1913 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Igor Stravinsky's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Gustav Mahler — classical, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould — classical, 33 tracks
- Where to start with Claude Debussy, Angela Hewitt — classical, 18 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Igor Stravinsky as a solo artist, from Sankt-Peterburg, Russia and born in 1882. Its contributors tag the artist classical, opera, neoclassicism and ballet. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Igor Stravinsky tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 20, across 1 album. 20 of them carry a date, running from 1913 to 1913. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 20 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 20 of these 20 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.