Composer: Maurice Ravel, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky, Francesco Tristano
Performer: Alice Sara Ott, Francesco Tristano
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4793541
Release: 2014
Size: 959 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tristano: A Soft Shell Groove
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (Version for Piano Duet)
02. Pt. 1: The Adoration of the Earth
03. Pt. 2: The Sacrifice
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
04. The Story of the Calender Prince
05. Ravel: La valse, M. 72 (Version for Piano Duet)
For her new recording rising star Alice Sara Ott teams up with Francesco Tristano, who is a guarantor for highly innovative projects.
Fascinated from the idea of Ballets Russes their challenging programme for two pianos centers upon Stravinsky’s extremely rhythmic and avant-garde score of “The rite of spring”, the crowning success de scandale of Ballets Russes and includes the catchy tune of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”.
The album features an exciting new composition by Francesco Tristano himself “A soft shell groove”, which has never been recorded before.
No ballet company influenced the 20th-century intellectual world as did Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, with its signature conceptualization of dance, music and the fine arts as equal partners in a unified art form.
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes became one of the most influential ballet companies of the 20th century, in part because of its ground-breaking artistic collaboration among contemporary choreographers, composers, artists, and dancers.
