Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Ensemble Intercomporain
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 88985465172
Release: 2017
Size: 924 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
The Firebird – Ballet Suite (1911)
01. I. Introduction – Kashchei’s Magic Garden and Dance of the Firebird
02. II. The Firebird’s Entreaties
03. III. The Princesses’ Game with the Golden Apples
04. IV. The Princesses’ Round Dance
05. V. Infernal Dance of all of Kashchei’s Subjects
Pulcinella Suite
06. I. Sinfonia (Ouverture)
07. II. Serenata
08. IIIa. Scherzino
09. IIIb. Allegro
10. IIIc. Andantino
11. IV. Tarantella
12. V. Toccata
13. VIa. Gavotta con due variazioni
14. VIb. Variazione I: Allegretto
15. VIc. Variazione II: Allegro più tosto moderato
16. VII. Vivo
17. VIIIa. Minuetto
18. VIIIb. Finale
19. Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3
Suite No. 1 for Chamber Orchestra
20. I. Andante
21. II. Napolitana
22. III. Española
23. IV. Balalaika
Suite No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra
24. I. Marche
25. II. Valse
26. III. Polka
27. IV. Galop
CD 02
Pétrouchka
01. Tableau 1, The Shrovetide Fair
02. Tableau 1, The Crowds
03. Tableau 1, Russian Dance
04. Tableau 2, Petrushka’s Room
05. Tableau 3, The Moor’s Room
06. Tableau 3, Dance of the Ballerina
07. Tableau 3, Waltz. The Ballerina and the Moor
08. Tableau 4, The Shrovetide Fair – Wet Nurses’ Dance
09. Tableau 4, Peasant and Bear
10. Tableau 4, Dance of the Gipsy Girls
11. Tableau 4, Dance of the Coachmen
12. Tableau 4, The Masqueraders
13. Tableau 4, The Fight – The Moor and Petrushka
14. Tableau 4, Death of Petrushka
15. Tableau 4, Police and Showman – Apparition of Petrushka’s Double
Le sacre du printemps (1947 version)
16. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Introduction
17. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, The Augurs of Spring – Dances of the Young Girls
18. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Ritual of Abduction
19. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Spring Round Dances
20. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Games of the Rival Clans
21. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Procession of the Wise Elder
22. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Adoration of the Earth
23. Pt. 1 “Adoration of the Earth”, Dance of the Earth
24. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, Introduction
25. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
26. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, Glorification of the Chosen One
27. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, The Summoning of the Ancients
28. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, Ritual of the Ancients
29. Pt. 2 “The Sacrifice”, Sacrificial Dance
CD 03
01. Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 Version)
The Song of the Nightingale
02. Introduction
03. Marche Chinoise
04. Chant du Rossignol
05. Jeu du Rossignol mécanique
The Firebird (Original Version 1910)
6. Introduction
7. Tableau I, Kashchei’s Magic Garden
8. Tableau I, The Firebird Appears Pursued by Ivan Tsarevich
9. Tableau I, Dance of the Firebird
10. Tableau I, Ivan Tsarevitch Captures the Firebird
11. Tableau I, The Firebird’s Entreaties
12. Tableau I, The Appearance of the 13 Enchanted Princesses
13. Tableau I, The Princesses’ Game with the Golden Apples
14. Tableau I, Sudden Appearance of Ivan Tsarevich
15. Tableau I, The Princesses’ Round Dance
16. Tableau I, Dawn – Ivan Tsarevich Enters Kashchei’s Palace
17. Tableau I, The Sound of the Enchanted Bells – Monsters Appear, Kashchei’s Guards, and Take Ivan Tsarevich Prisoner
18. Tableau I, The Arrival of Kashchei the Immortal
19. Tableau I, Kashchei’s Dialogue with Ivan Tsarevich
20. Tableau I, The Princesses Intercede
21. Tableau I, The Appearance of the Firebird
22. Tableau I, Dance of Kashchei’s Retinue, under the Firebirds’s Spell
23. Tableau I, Infernal Dance of all of Kashchei’s Subjects
24. Tableau I, Lullaby
25. Tableau I, Kashchei Awakes
26. Tableau I, Death of Kashchei – Profound Darkness
27. Tableau II, Disappearance of the Palace and Dissolution of Kashchei’s Enchantments – Animation of the Petrified Knights – General Rejoicing
Pierre Boulez transformed the musical tastes of a generation with his groundbreaking, lucid interpretations of early 20th-century repertoire. Gramophone wrote that his death in 2016 marked “the end of a whole way of perceiving music”. This collection of three CDs brings together the key early ballet scores of Stravinsky with a number of other works by the Russian composer, all recorded with ensembles with whom Boulez maintained a close relationship. With the New York Philharmonic are recordings of the Firebird and the Pulcinella suite, Petrushka, the tone poem Chant du rossignol and the Symphonies of Wind Instruments.