Lost Stravinsky piece performed for first time since rediscovery

Electric atmosphere as Valery Gergiev conducts Funeral Song at Maryinsky concert hall in St PetersburgIgor Stravinsky’s Funeral Song for orchestra has had to wait almost 108 years for a second performance. But the work has at last made it after the lost materials resurfaced in a St Petersburg Conservatoire house move last year, chiefly thanks to the tireless exertions of one of the Conservatoire professors, Natalya Braginskaya.After protracted haggling over rights between the Conservatoire