10 novembre 2007

Sony - Stravinsky conducts Pulcinella

Sony
9.80026 STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella (Stravinsky)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Disc: 2
Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi 37:19

1. Overture: Allegro moderato
2. Serenata. Larghetto
3. Scherzino. Allegro
4. Più vivo - Allegro
5. Andantino
6. Allegro
7. Ancora poco meno ('Contento forse')
8. Allegro assai
9. Allegro - alla breve ('Con queste')
10. Andante ('Sento dire')


Mary Simmons, soprano / Glenn Schnittke, tenor / Philip MacGregor, bass
Cleveland Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky, conductor


British Music Society - Mewton-Wood: 20th -Century Piano Concertos

British Music Society
BMS101CDH MEWTON-WOOD, Noel: 20th -Century Piano Concertos (1953)

ARTHUR BLISS
Piano Concerto, Op. 108
Utrecht Symphony Orchestra

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Piano Concerto
Hague Residentie Orchestra

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra


Noel Mewton-Wood, piano
Walter Goehr, conductor

Vanguard - Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)

Vanguard
ATM-CD-1505 STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (1911 version) / The Firebird Suite (excerpts)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Petrushka (1911 version)
01. Tableau I: The Shrove-Tide Fair 09:55
02. Tableau II: In Petrushka's Cell 04:13
03. Tableau III: The Blackamoor 06:50
04. Tableau IV: The Shrove-Tide Fair (towards evening) 13:32
London Symphony Orchestra
Charles Mackerras, conductor

IGOR STRAVINSKY
The Firebird Suite (excerpts) (arr. for piano)
05. II. Dance infernal du roi Kastchei 04:42
06. VI. Berceuse (Lullaby) 03:48
07. VII. Finale 03:27
Robin McCabe, piano

Hungaroton - Ravel Stravinsky

Hungaroton
HCD32038 RAVEL: La Valse / STRAVINSKY: 3 Movements from Petrushka / Petrushka

MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse (arr. for piano)
Adam Fellegi, piano

MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Gyorgy Lehel, conductor

IGOR STRAVINSKY
3 Movements from Petrushka
Adam Fellegi, piano

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Petrushka (1946 version)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor

8 novembre 2007

Vox - Horenstein conduct Stravinsky

Vox
VOX-7804 STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring (The) / The Firebird Suite (1919) (Horenstein)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

The Firebird Suite (1919 version)



South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Jascha Horenstein, conductor

Vanguard - Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat

Vanguard
ATM-SC-1559 STRAVINSKY: L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) (performed in English)
01. Part I - The Soldier's March
02. Part I - Music to Scene One - "Airs by a Stream"
03. Part I - Reprise of the Soldier's March
04. Part I - Music to Scene 2 (Pastorale)
05. Part I - Postlude to Pastorale
06. Part I - Reprise of "Airs by a Stream"
07. Part I - Music to Scene 3
08. Part II - The Soldier's March
09. Part II - Continuation of Marching Tunes
10. Part II - Royal March
11. Part II - The Little Concert
12. Part II - Tango
13. Part II - Waltz
14. Part II - Ragtime
15. Part II - The Devil's Dance
16. Part II - The Little Chorale
17. Part II - The Devil's Song
18. Part II - The Great Chorale
19. Part II - The Devil's Triumphant March


Madeleine Milhaud, narrator / Jean-Pierre Aumont, narrator / Martial Singher, baritone / Gerald Tarack, violin / Charles Russo, clarinet / Theodore Weis, trumpet / Julius Levine, double bass / Loren Glickman, bassoon / John Swallow, trombone / Raymond Desroches, percussion
Leopold Stokowski, conductor

ATMA - Reich: Electric Counterpoint, etc.

ATMA
ACD22550 REICH: Electric Counterpoint / BROUWER: Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisa

PASCAL SASSEVILLE QUOQUOCHI

Chaman
Mathieu Desy, double bass

RICHARD DESJARDINS
La Maison est ouverte
Mathieu Desy, double bass / Richard Desjardins, narrator

DENIS GOUGEON
Une Petite Musique de nuit d'été
Mathieu Desy, double bass

RICHARD DESJARDINS
Les Yankees
Mathieu Desy, double bass / Richard Desjardins, narrator

FRANCIS MARCOUX
Selisir

STEVE REICH
Electric Counterpoint

FRANCOIS GAUTHIER
Equus
Mathieu Desy, double bass

LEO BROUWER
Acerca del cielo, el aire y la sonrisa (The sky, the air and the smile)


Forestare

7 novembre 2007

Royal Academy of Music - Et Exspecto

Royal Academy of Music
RAM029 ET EXSPECTO

RICHARD STRAUSS
Sonatina No. 1 in F major, "Sonatina No. 1 in F major, TrV 288, "Aus der Werkstatt eines Invaliden"
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Romanze und Menuetto: Andante - Tempo di Menuetto
03. III. Finale: Molto Allegro

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
04. Symphonies of Wind Instruments

OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (I await the resurrection of the dead)
05. I. Des profondeurs de l'abime, je crie vers toi, Seigneur: Seigneur, ecoute ma voix!
06. II. Le Christ, ressuscite des morts, ne meurt plus; la mort n'a plus sur lui d'empire
07. III. L'heure vient ou les morts entendront la voix du Fils de Dieu
08. IV. Ils ressusciteront, glorieux, avec un nom nouveau, dans le concert joyeux des etoiles et les acclamations des fils du Ciel
09. V. Et j'entendis la voix d'une foule immense.


Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Keith Bragg, conductor

6 novembre 2007

Onyx - STRAVINSKY: Apollo / Concerto for Strings in D major / etc

Onyx
ONYX4017 STRAVINSKY: Apollo / Concerto for Strings in D major / PROKOFIEV: 20 Visions fugitives

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Apollo (1947 revision)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
Concerto for Strings in D major

SERGEY PROKOFIEV
20 Visions fugitives (Mimoletnosti), Op. 22 (arr. for orchestra)



Moscow Soloists
Yuri Bashmet, conductor

5 novembre 2007

Sony - Stravinsky: The Firebird

Sony
9.80048 STRAVINSKY: Firebird (The) (Ansermet)

IGOR STRAVINSKY
The Firebird

01. Introduction
Scene I: Night. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden
Ivan Tsarevich appears
The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)

02. Scene I: Daybreak
Ivan Tsarevich, entering Kastchei's palace
The entrance of Kastchei the Immortal
Scene II: General Thanksgiving



Swiss Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet, conductor