Here’s a Stravinsky piece I had never heard until today, and I think it’s now my favorite of his, after a couple of listens. More info at The Guardian and Wikipedia.
“The setting of Psalm 150 in the finale is the most original movement in the symphony. It’s a contrast between two kinds of time, and two wildly differentiated sorts of music: the slow, circling sighs and breathtaking evocation of static, infinite timelessness that you hear at the start of the movement, and fast, violent shock of the music that comes next. There’s an animal ferocity in this faster music: Stravinsky’s vision of praising God takes in desperation and even savagery.”