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Music from Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes | Signum SIGCD271

Music from Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD271

Barcode: 0635212027127

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 5th September 2011

Contents

Works

Stravinsky
The Firebird

Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky
Petrushka

Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique

Liadov
Baba-Yaga

Liadov
The Enchanted Lake

Liadov
Kikimora

Poulenc
Les biches

Artists

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor

Thierry Fischer

Works

Stravinsky
The Firebird

Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring

Stravinsky
Petrushka

Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique

Liadov
Baba-Yaga

Liadov
The Enchanted Lake

Liadov
Kikimora

Poulenc
Les biches

Artists

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor

Thierry Fischer

About

The relatively short artistic collaboration between Igor Stravinsky and Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes resulted in works that remained consistently popular with audiences the world over for nearly a hundred years.

This new 3 CD set of live orchestral recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales – made in their home venue of the BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff – captures Stravinsky’s three great ballet scores as well as works by fellow Ballet Russes composers Poulenc (Les Biches) and Liadov (Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake and Kikimora).

This fresh sounding live recording from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer, the first made in the BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, certainly has a sense of occasion about it, with the audience erupting as the finale chorale [Firebird] reaches its exultant conclusion.” - BBC Music Magazine

… [Thierry Fischer’s] Petrushka, notably beautiful, is graciously touching rather than violent or eruptive, the clean-textured, superbly detailed playing from the BBC National Orchestra Wales reminds us just how startlingly original Stravinsky’s sonorities” - The Guardian

… you should buy this for the generous, unusual coupling with Francis Poulenc’s rowdy, witty 1924 ballet Les biches …. As with the Rite, the performance is immaculate.” - The Arts Desk

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