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Stravinsky - Later Ballets | Naxos 8557506

Stravinsky - Later Ballets

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557506

Barcode: 0747313250622

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th November 2007

Contents

Artists

Mark Wait (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Craft

Works

Stravinsky, Igor

Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Danses concertantes
Jeu de cartes (The Card Game)
Scenes de Ballet
Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam'

Artists

Mark Wait (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Craft

About

Commissioned by George Balanchine, Jeu de cartes is a prime example of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas emerging helter-skelter from Stravinsky’s imagination. Unlike his other ballets, it contains no slow music and no lovers’ pas-de-deux adagio.

Danses concertantes was the first large-scale piece composed entirely in what was to be Stravinsky’s Hollywood home for the next 24 years.

First performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Robert Craft, Variations are the densest music Stravinsky ever wrote, yet the ingenious rhythmic structures allow every note to be heard. Ezra Pound, in a balcony at the Teatro La Fenice for a September 1934 performance of the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, wrote: “the piano and orchestra are as two shells of a walnut”. Alban Berg, who had shared the same concert with Stravinsky, remarked to the latter: “I wish I could write such happy music”.

Contents:

Jeu de cartes (1935-36)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft

Danses concertantes (1941-42)
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Robert Craft

Scènes de Ballet (1944)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Robert Craft

Variations (1963-64)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robert Craft

Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929)
Mark Wait (piano)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Robert Craft

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