STRAVINSKY, I.: Rite of Spring (The) / The Nightingale (Craft) (Stravinsky, Vol. 3)
| Composer(s): | Stravinsky, Igor |
| Artist(s) | Burgess, Sally, alto • Greenan, Andrew, baritone • Preece, Simon, bass • Richardson, Stephen, bass • Whelan, Paul, bass-baritone • London Voices, Choir • Craft, Robert, Conductor • London Symphony Orchestra • Philharmonia Orchestra • Trifonova, Olga, soprano • Longworth, Pippa, soprano • Hall, Peter, tenor • Tear, Robert, tenor |
| Period(s) | 20th Century |
| Genre | Classical Music |
| Category | Ballet • Opera |
| Catalogue | 8.557501 |
| Label | Naxos |
| Quality | 320kbps |
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‘May whoever listens to this music never experience the insult to which it was subjected and of which I was the witness in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, Spring 1913’, wrote Stravinsky in 1968, of the première of his Rite of Spring. Written for a huge orchestra to a setting of scenes from pagan Russia, this elemental ballet with its vaulting, violent energy and assymetrical rhythms almost from beginning to end, has become a major landmark of 20th century music. Stravinsky’s orchestral palette, different and distinctive in every work, is never more exotically colourful than in his one act opera The Nightingale, which is a virtual catalogue of avian imitations.
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