Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Anthony Marwood, Thomas Adès
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67723
Release: 2010
Size: 347 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Suite for Violin and Piano from Pulcinella, K34 (1925 Version)
01. I. Introductione
02. II. Serenata
03. III. Tarantella
04. IV. Gavotta con due variazioni
05. V. Minuetto e finale
06. Pastorale, K6 (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
Le rossignol, K18
07. I. Airs du rossignol (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
08. II. Marche chinoise (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
Duo concertant, K54
09. I. Cantilene
10. II. Eglogue I
11. III. Eglogue II
12. IV. Gigue
13. V. Dithyrambe
CD 02
The Firebird, K10
01. Berceuse (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
02. Prélude et Ronde des princesses (Version for Violin & Piano)
03. Scherzo (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & PIano)
Mavra, K39
04. Chanson russe. Russian Maiden’s Song (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
Divertimento from “Le baiser de la fée”, K49 (Arr. Stravinsky/Dushkin)
05. I. Sinfonia
06. II. Danses suisses
07. III. Scherzo
08. IVa. Pas de deux. Adagio
09. IVb. Pas de deux. Variation
10. IVc. Pas de deux. Coda
Petrushka, K12
11. Ib. Danse Russe (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
12. Tango, K62 (Arr. Dushkin for Violin and Piano)
Le baiser de la fée, K49
13. Ballade (Arr. Gautier for Violin & Piano)
Suite Italienne from Pulcinella, K34 (Arr. with Dushkin for Violin & Piano)
14. V. Scherzino
Rouget de Lisle
15. La Marseillaise (Arr. Stravinsky for Solo Violin as KN20)
Stravinsky’s collaboration with the violinist Samuel Dushkin was a great artistic success, generating new works for the repertoire as well as arrangements of some of the composer’s most tuneful and popular works. Of these arrangements, Dushkin wrote that Stravinsky seemed ‘to go back to the essence of the music and rewrite or recreate the music in the spirit of the new instrument’. Reviewing the current performers in The Independent, Bayan Northcott writes that ‘these are no ordinary transcriptions. In reducing items from The Firebird or The Fairy’s Kiss to the violin and piano medium, Stravinsky rethought and respaced their every chord’.
In the performing partnership of Anthony Marwood and Thomas Adès, Hyperion has a combination that seems to reignite the original flames of inspiration, creation and re-creation.