Advantages: You will hear a landmark in music history Disadvantages: Can be frightening for those only used to Bach
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), is best known for his ground-breaking and hugely influential music for ballet. Indeed, 'The Rite of Spring' or 'Le Sacre du Printemps' is perhaps the best example of Stravinsky's challenging and provocative interpretation of the 'Brave New World'.
'The Rite' was premiered in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris (1913), and it all started well as a seemingly innocent bassoon melody floated out from the orchestral pit. What was to follow, however, was to shock and enrage the unprepared Parisian audience: pagan content, ritual sacrifice, wild choreography, savage and hugely unconventional music. This moment is a milestone in music history, and heralded (along with Schoenberg) a transformation in music: whilst once thought of as horrific, Stravinsky's music is now admired and is still perpetually ...
Advantages: Music of tremendous power and excitement Disadvantages: You could annoy the neighbours
of musical history took a sudden lurch in a new direction. And it caused a riot.
The event promised to be a pleasant evening out at the ballet at the Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris. A young composer, Igor Stravinsky, already popular through his ballet music for The Firebird and Petrouchka, had written a new ballet, Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring.). The great Ballets Russes, formed four years earlier by Sergei Diaghilev, was to perform the ballet and a large audience turned up, looking forward no doubt to a charming, colourful spectacle and to some wonderful Russian music. Stravinsky had, after all, been a pupil of the great Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer of highly colourful music including Sheherazade and The Flight of the Bumblebee. And young Igor Stravinsky had been his most gifted student.
The choreography was by ...
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Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky (1882 - 1971); Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s)
London Symphony Orchestra
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Label / Distributor
Elatus / TEN
Pieces in Set
1
Running Time
1 hour 5 minutes
Genre(s)
Stage works
Stereo
Stereo
SPAR Code
DDD
EAN
809274672520
Catalogue Number
927
Work 1
Work Title
Petrushka
Excerpt(s)
1. SCENE 1 - The Shrove-tide Fair; The Crowds; The Charlatan's Booth; Russian Dance 2. SCENE 2 - Petrushka's Room 3. SCENE 3 - The Moor's Room; Dance of the Ballerina; Waltz (Ballerina and Moor) 4. SCENE 4 - The Shrove-tide Fair (near evening); Dance of the Wet Nurses; Dance of the Peasant and the Bear; Danse of the
Composer
Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1911 rev 1947
Conductor
Kent Nagano
Orchestra / Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
Work 2
Work Title
(The) Miraculous Mandarin, Sz73 (Op. 19)
Excerpt(s)
1. Suite
Composer
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Genre
Stage works
Date Written
1926
Conductor
Kent Nagano
Orchestra / Ensemble
London Symphony Orchestra
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