Diaghilev – Ballets Russes (FLAC)

Composer: Alexander Tcherepnin, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky, Carl Maria von Weber, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Paul Dukas, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Florent Schmitt, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie, Ottorino Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Modest Mussorgsky, Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud, Sergei Prokofiev, Georg Friedrich Händel, Serge Diaghilev, Adolphe Charles Adam, Anatoly Liadov, Henri Sauguet
Number of Discs: 22
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 9029647715
Release: 2022
Size: 6.52 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

CD 01: Saison 1909
Tcherepnin: Le Pavillon d’Armide

CD 02: Saisons 1909-1910
Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35

CD 03: Saison 1910
Adam: Giselle

CD 04: Saison 1910
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9
Stravinsky: The Firebird

CD 05: Saison 1911
Tcherepnin: Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40
Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

CD 06-07: Saison 1911
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20

CD 08: Saisons 1911-1912
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Dukas: Fanfare to La Peri
Dukas: La Péri
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

CD 09: Saisons 1912
Balakirev: Symphonic Poem ‘Tamara’
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé

CD 10: Saison 1913
Debussy: Jeux – Poème dansé
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50

CD 11: Saison 1914
Strauss: Josephs-Legende: Symphonic Fragment, Op.63a
Stravinsky: The Nightingale

CD 12: Saisons 1916-1917
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Tommasini: Le donne di buon umore Suite
Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
Liadov: Kikimora, Op. 63
Liadov: Baba-Yaga, Op. 56
Satie: Parade

CD 13: Saison 1919
Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, PP120
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos

CD 14: Saison 1920
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol
Stravinsky: Pulcinella

CD 15-17: Saison 1921
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Prokofiev: Chout – Suite, Op.21a

CD 18: Saisons 1922-1924
Stravinsky: Renard
Stravinsky: Les Noces
Poulenc: Les Biches

CD 19: Saisons 1924 & 1926
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Auric: Les Facheux – ballet in one act
Milhaud: Le Train Bleu, Op. 84
Satie: Jack in the Box

CD 20: Saisons 1927-1928
Sauguet: Le Chatte
Satie: Mercure – Poses plastiques en trois tableaux
Prokofiev: Le Pas d’acier (The Steel Dance): Suite Op. 41b
Beecham: The Gods go A’Begging

CD 21: Saisons 1928-1929
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
Prokofiev: The Prodigal Son, Op. 46

CD 22: Saison 1908
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

A transformative force in music, dance and the visual arts, the Ballets russes was founded in Paris in 1909 by the visionary impresario Serge Diaghilev. Innovative and flamboyant, he had a genius for bringing together the most brilliant composers, dancers, choreographers and designers, for nurturing creativity, and for galvanising audiences. Emblematic of the influence of the Ballets russes was the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps: it caused a notorious scandal, but it also changed musical history. This 22CD set traces the company’s path through the 20 years of its existence – a tumultuous, but artistically fertile period – and comprises every Ballet russes score that has ever been recorded. Encompassing epoch-making works and rarities awaiting rediscovery, it offers a number of CD premieres and landmark interpretations by major musicians of the 78, LP and digital eras.