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Stravinsky – The Firebird
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Stravinsky – The Firebird
Composers
Chopin, Fryderyk
Sibelius, Jean
Stravinsky, Igor
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Genres
Orchestral
Orchestras / Ensembles
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors
Litton, Andrew
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-1874 SACD
Release date
2012-01-31
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
44100Hz
Total time
71:40
Classics Today 10/10, March 2012, Disc of the Month; Klassic.com Triple 4 Stars July 2012.
The Firebird was Igor Stravinsky’s first full-length ballet, but not his first collaboration with Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes. In
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1909, a year before the triumphant première of The Firebird, the charismatic impresario had commissioned Stravinsky to orchestrate two piano compositions by Chopin for use in another project. Evidently pleased with the result, he invited the young composer to write the music for the next production of his ballet company, to a scenario based on various well-known Russian fairy-tale characters. The score holds several moments that recall Scriabin, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky’s teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, but the mature Stravinsky is already present in the superb orchestral craft and the vivid rhythmic imagination. Rather than either of the two suites which Stravinsky later prepared, Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have chosen to record the original ballet score, allowing us to relish the enormous range of colours springing from what the composer later described as a ‘wastefully large’ orchestration. Soon after The Firebird, Stravinsky went on to influence the direction of music with Petrushka and The Rite of Spring – two scores which appear on a recent release with the same performers. That much acclaimed disc was short-listed for a 2011 Gramophone Award, named Editor’s Choice in Classic FM Magazine, and selected as Disc of the Month by the websites Classics Today and Classics Today France, and the recording itself was praised on a par with the interpretation and playing, with the reviewer in International Record Review describing ‘the efforts of the BIS recording team’ as ‘truly magnificent’. The present disc includes not only The Firebird, but also the above-mentioned Chopin orchestrations, as well as arrangements of pieces by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, ending with Stravinsky’s tongue-in-cheek 1955 Greeting Prelude for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux, the conductor who had given the world premières of both Petrushka and The Rite of Spring some forty years earlier.
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Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird), 1910 Ballet Score
01
Introduction
02:26
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Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird) - I. Tableau
40:57
02
Le Jardin enchanté de Kastchei
01:38
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03
Apparition de l’oiseau de feu, poursuivi par Ivan
Tsarévitch
02:17
$ 0.48
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04
Danse de l’oiseau de feu
01:19
$ 0.28
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05
Capture de l’oiseau de feu par Ivan Tsarévitch
00:51
$ 0.18
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06
Supplications de l’oiseau de feu
05:46
$ 1.21
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07
Apparition des treize princesses enchantées
02:34
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08
Jeu des princesses avec les pommes d’or
02:32
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09
Brusque apparition d’Ivan Tsarévitch
01:16
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10
Khorovode (Ronde) des princesses
04:58
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11
Lever du jour – Ivan Tsarévitch pénètre dans le palais
de Kastchei
01:24
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12
Carillon féerique, apparition des monstres-gardiens de
Kastchei et capture d’Ivan Tsarévitch
01:26
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13
Arrivée de Kastchei l’immortel
01:10
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14
Dialogue de Kastchei avec Ivan Tsarévitch
01:24
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15
Intercession des princesses
01:12
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16
Apparition de l’oiseau de feu
00:31
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17
Danse de la suite de Kastchei, enchantée par l’oiseau de
feu
00:44
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18
Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastchei
04:30
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19
Berceuse (L’oiseau de feu)
02:58
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20
Réveil de Kastchei
00:56
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21
Mort de Kastchei – Profondes ténèbres
01:31
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Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird) - II. Tableau
22
Disparition du palais et des sortilèges de Kastchei,
animation des chevaliers petrifies. Allégresse générale
03:31
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Composer: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Pas-De-Deux (L’Oiseau bleu – Bluebird) from the ballet
‘The Sleeping Beauty’, arr. Igor Stravinsky
05:06
23
1. Adagio
02:10
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24
2. Variation I. Tempo di Valse
00:45
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25
3. Variation II. Andantino
00:43
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26
4. Coda. Con moto
01:28
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Composer: Sibelius, Jean
Canzonetta, Op.62a for two clarinets, four horns, harp, and
double bass, arr. Igor Stravinsky
27
Canzonetta, Op.62a for two clarinets, four horns, harp and
double bass, arr. Igor Stravinsky
03:24
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Composer: Chopin, Fryderyk
28
Nocturne in A flat major Op.32 No.1, orch. Igor Stravinsky
07:31
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Composer: Chopin, Fryderyk
29
Grande Valse Brillante Op.18, orch. Igor Stravinsky
06:07
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Composer: Stravinsky, Igor
30
Greeting Prelude for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux
00:51
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Album total
71:40
Composer
Chopin, Fryderyk
Sibelius, Jean
Stravinsky, Igor
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Orchestra
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Litton, Andrew
Arranger
Stravinsky, Igor
Orchestrator
Stravinsky, Igor
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