Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements; Song of the Nightingale

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In the early 1990s, Chandos released several rehearsal recordings for a series of live performances of Stravinsky's best music. These are those recordings. But don't be put off. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande perfectly captures the distinct quirkiness of Stravinsky's music. Everything here is dynamite. Le Chant du Rossignol (1917) is what's left of an opera of the same name, transcribed as Petruscha-like ballet. Also here is the powerful Symphony in Three Movements (1942-43), which mixes dance rhythms with strains of jazz syncopation and the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1949) as popular now as it was then. --Paul Cook

Tracks:

The Firebird: Intro
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Kashchei's Magic Garden
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Appearance Of The Firebird Pursued By Prince Ivan
The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Firebird's Dance
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Prince Ivan Captures The Firebird
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Supplications Of The Firebird/Appearance Of The Thirteen Enchanted...
The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Princesses' Game With The Golden Apples
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Sudden Appearance Of Prince Ivan
The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Princesses' Round-Dance
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Daybreak
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Magic Carillon/Appearance Of Kashchei's Guardian Monsters/Capture Of...
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Dance Of Kashcheis Retinue Under The Firebird's Spell
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Infernal Dance Of All Kashchei's Subjects
The Firebird: Tableau 1: Lullaby (The Firebird)/Kashchei Awakes/Death Of Kashchei/Darkness
The Firebird: Tableau 2: Dissolution Of The Palace And Kashchei's Spells/Animation Of The...
The Song Of The Nightingale: Feast In The Emperor's Palace
The Song Of The Nightingale: The Two Nightingales
The Song Of The Nightingale: Illness And Recovery Of The Emperor Of China

Tracks:

Petrouchka: Tableau 1: The Shrovetide Fair
Petrouchka: Tableau 2: In Petrushka's Room
Petrouchka: Tableau 3: In The Moor's Room
Petrouchka: Tableau 4: The Shrovetide Fair, Evening
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Intro
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Augurs Of Spring/Dances Of The Young Girls
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of Abduction
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Spring Rounds
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of The Rival Tribes
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Procession Of The Sage
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: The Sage
The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Dance Of The Earth
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Intro
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Glorification Of The Chosen One
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Evocation Of The Ancestors
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Ritual Action Of The Ancestors
The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance: The Chosen One

Tracks:

Pulcinella: Ov: Allegro Moderato
Pulcinella: Serenata: Larghetto 'Mentre L'Erbetta' - Carlo Franzini
Pulcinella: Scherzino: Allegro
Pulcinella: Allegro
Pulcinella: Andantino
Pulcinella: Allegro
Pulcinella: Ancora Poco Meno 'Contento Forse Vivere' - Marilyn Tyler
Pulcinella: Allegro Assai
Pulcinella: Allegro - Alla Breve 'Con Queste Paroline' - Boris Carmeli
Pulcinella: Largo 'Sento Dire No'nce Pace' - Marilyn Tyler/Carlo Franzini/Boris Carmeli
Pulcinella: Allegro - Alla Breve
Pulcinella: Tarantella
Pulcinella: Andantino 'Se Tu M'Ami' - Marilyn Tyler
Pulcinella: Allegro
Pulcinella: Allegro
Pulcinella: Gavotta Con Due Vars
Pulcinella: Tempo Di Minuetto 'Pupilette, Fiammette D'Amore' - Marilyn Tyler/Carlo Franzini/Boris Carmeli
Pulcinella: Allegro Assai
Apollo: Prologue: Naissance D'Apollon
Apollo: Var D'Apollon: Apollon Et Les Muses
Apollo: Pas D'Action
Apollo: Var De Calliope
Apollo: Var De Polymnie
Apollo: Var De Terpsichore
Apollo: Var D'Apollon
Apollo: Pas De Deux
Apollo: Coda: Apollon Et Les Muses
Apollo: Apotheose

Tracks:

The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 1: Prologue
The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 2: A Village Fete
The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 3: By The Mill
The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 4. Epilogue: Lullaby Of The Land Beyond Time And Place
Renard (A Burlesque Story To Be Sung And Played) - Gerald English/John Mitchinson/Peter Glossop/Joseph Rouleau/John Leach

Tracks:

The Soldier's Tale: Marche Du Soldat - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Musique Pour Scene 1 - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Musique Pour Scene 2 - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Marche Royale - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Petit Conc - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Tango - Waltz - Ragtime - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Danse Du Diable - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Chorale - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
The Soldier's Tale: Marche Triomphale Du Diable - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
Pulcinella: Sinf
Pulcinella: Serenata
Pulcinella: Scherzino
Pulcinella: Allegro
Pulcinella: Andantino
Pulcinella: Tarantella
Pulcinella: Toccata
Pulcinella: Gavotta Con Due Vars
Pulcinella: Vivo
Pulcinella: Minuetto
Pulcinella: Finale

Tracks:

Sym in C: I. Moderato Alla Breve
Sym in C: II. Larghetto Conc
Sym in C: III. Allegretto
Sym in C: IV: Largo - Tempo Giusto Alla Breve
Sym in Three Movts: I. 1/2nt = 160
Sym in Three Movts: II. Andante
Sym in Three Movts: III. Con Moto
Syms Of Wind Instruments

Tracks:

Con: Largo - Allegro - Nikita Magaloff
Con: Largo - Nikita Magaloff
Con: Allegro - Nikita Magaloff
Capriccio: Presto - Nikita Magaloff
Capriccio: Andante Rapsodico - Nikita Magaloff
Capriccio: Allegro Capriccioso Ma Tempo Giusto - Nikita Magaloff
Ste No.1: Andante
Ste No.1: Napolitana - L'Orch De La Suisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet L
Ste No.1: Espanola
Ste No.1: Balalaika
Ste No.2: Marche
Ste No.2: Valse
Ste No.2: Polka
Ste No.2: Galop
4 Etudes: Danse
4 Etudes: Excentrique
4 Etudes: Cantique
4 Etudes: Madrid
Scherzo A La Russe

Tracks:

Sym Of Psalms: I. Psaume XXXIX - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
Sym Of Psalms: II. Psaume XL - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
Sym Of Psalms: III. Psaume CL - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
The Wedding: Tableau 1: At The Bride's - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
The Wedding: Tableau 2: At The Bridegroom's - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
The Wedding: Tableau 3: The Bride's Departure - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
The Wedding: Tableau 4: The Wedding Feast - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
Mavra: Ov
Mavra: Air - Joan Carlyle
Mavra: Gypsy Song - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle
Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Joan Carlyle
Mavra: Air - Helen Watts
Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
Mavra: Duet - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair/Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
Mavra: Qt - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair/Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
Mavra: Duet - Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
Mavra: Dialogue - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle/Helen Watts
Mavra: Air - Kenneth Macdonald
Mavra: Coda - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle/Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair

Customer Reviews:

Hours and hours of fun!.......2007-01-24

Renard alone makes this set worthwhile. No other recorded performance (including Stravinsky's own) brings out the humor and basic "enjoyability" of this piece.

Prodigious performances!.......2006-10-17

Ernest Ansermet' s refined style was always supported by an admirable incisiveness around all what he conducted. And his Stravinsky still stands as one of the most perfect, idiomatic and extraordinary readings ever made; hovered with that deep vision and knower of the Stravinsky' s aesthetic; Ansermet always to blend power, febrile imagination and musculature, among his best achievements I should remark his Fairy' s kiss, The game of cards, Petrouchka, and the thundering Le Sacre are played with the right balance between abstraction and finesse; expression and sumptuous lyricism.

So you should not hesitate just for a second at the moment to decide to go for this special compilation.

Absolutely recommended.

Ansermet & Stravinsky - A Perfect Pair.......2003-05-19

This 8 CD collection of Stravinsky's Ballets, Stage Works and Orchestral Works is nothing short of magical. Conducted in its entirety by Ernest Ansermet leading the orchestra he founded, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, this box set, while not complete, features all the great Stravinsky compositions -- "Firebird," "Rite of Spring," "Petrouchka," "Pulcinella," and all the Symphonies among others. Unlike most of history's great composers, Stravinsky himself was able to conduct and record his own music in stereo, so why not just get those discs? Well you should, but the Ansermet recordings generally offer superior sound and clarity. In fact, Ansermet was Stravinsky's personal choice to conduct the world premieres of many of his recordings, and Ansermet was selected by the composer to introduce the three famous ballets to U.S. audiences. A mathematician prior to his life as a conductor, Ansermet had his critics as he was virtually self-taught, though he did study music as a youth. But that mathematics background served him well in the studio as his early stereo recordings of everything from Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev to Falla and Chausson are engineered to perfection, and often sound better than the recordings by so-called more famous conductors. But don't take my word for it, buy some Ansermet for yourself and see. If you are not prepared to get this Stravinsky Box right away, then ease in with the new Ernest Ansermet "Great Conductors of the Century" compilation (see my review). You won't be disappointed.

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements; Song of the Nightingale

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Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements; Song of the Nightingale

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000ATQ
Release Date: 1994-01-04

Tracks:

Le Chant du Rossignol: Presto -
Le Chant du Rossignol: Marche chinoise
Le Chant du Rossignol
Le Chant du Rossignol: Le Jeu du Rossignol mechanique
Symphony in Three Movements: I - 160
Symphony in Three Movements: II Andante - Piu mosso - Tempo I
Symphony in Three Movements: III Con moto
Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: I Presto
Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: II Andante rapsodico
Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: III Allegro capriccioso ma sempre giusto

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In the early 1990s, Chandos released several rehearsal recordings for a series of live performances of Stravinsky's best music. These are those recordings. But don't be put off. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande perfectly captures the distinct quirkiness of Stravinsky's music. Everything here is dynamite. Le Chant du Rossignol (1917) is what's left of an opera of the same name, transcribed as Petruscha-like ballet. Also here is the powerful Symphony in Three Movements (1942-43), which mixes dance rhythms with strains of jazz syncopation and the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1949) as popular now as it was then. --Paul Cook

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A Satisfying Selection of Stravinsky's Orchestral Works

Stravinsky: Orchestral Works

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
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Bruckner: Masses #2 & 3, Te Deum, 5 Motets

ASIN: B00005UVAQ
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

Introduction - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marche Chinoise - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Chanson Du Rossignol - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jeu Du Rossignol Macanique - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
I. Moderato - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
II. Larghetto Concertante - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
III. Allegretto - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
IV. Largo - Tempo Giusto - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
I. ! = 160 - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
II. Andante - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
III. Con Moto - Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tracks:

Naissance D'Apollon - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Variation D'Apollon (Apollon Et Les Muses) - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Pas D'Action (Apollon Et Les Trois Muses: Calliope, Polymnie Et Terpsichore - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Variation De Calliope (L'Alexandrin) - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Variation De Polymnie - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Variation De Terpsichore - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Variation D'Apollon - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Pas De Deux (Apollon Et Terpsichore) - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Coda (Apollon Et Les Muses) - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Apothaose - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
I. Tempo Guisto - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
II. Allegretto - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
III. Con Moto - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
I. Vivace - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
II. Arioso: Andantino - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
III. Rondo: Allegro - Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

A Satisfying Selection of Stravinsky's Orchestral Works.......2005-04-30

Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (and Scottish Chamber Orchestra in the 'Apollon musagete') perform these Stravinsky works with panache and incisive attention to the rhythmic complexities and sonorities. The grouping of the works is unusual in that it avoids the more well-known works in favor of some of the less often heard delicacies of the master's output.

Especially rewarding is this reading of the 'Song of the Nightingale', a work that deserves much wider performance, especially like the recent brilliance sculpted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya with the LA Philharmonic, the Disney Hall acoustics unveiling many of the Oriental mysteries and melodies and intonings seldom heard even on this excellent recording.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a clear headed, no nonsense conductor who unravels the scores of 'Symphony in C', 'Symphony in Three Movements', 'Apollon musagete', and the 'Dumbarton Oaks' and 'Basel' concertos with dexterity and a keen sense of architecture. The recorded sound is warm and clear and the orchestras are both articulate and excellent in the isolated solo work.

For a solid collection of lesser known Stravinsky this fine recording is a bonus. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, April 05

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The Song of the Nightingale

Manufacturer: bbc
ProductGroup: Classical
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000IJYBYY

Product Description

1.the song of the nightingale 2-5.symphony in c 6-8.symphony in three movements

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Shaky technically, but a good budget colleciton

Essential Stravinsky
Stravinsky , Jarvi , and Osr
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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Stravinsky: Firebird, Rite Of Spring, Persephone / Tilson Thomas, San Francisco SO

ASIN: B00006ANZS
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Customer Reviews:

Shaky technically, but a good budget colleciton.......2005-09-04

I don't admire Jarvi as a conductor, so it surprised me that I mostly enjoyed this colleciton of somewhat ragged but spirited performances. The Oedipus Rex in particular woke me up in spots, and all the other performances showed dramatic interest. The orchestra isns't up to a good American orchestra like cincinnati or Pittsburgh, but you can sitll hear an echo of its glory days under Ansermet--it wasn't very good technically then, either, but there was a heap of style to make up for that.