Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps

Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: 4832562
Label: Decca
Length: 70 minutes

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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre

10:29

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2017-08-19
Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne

Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4

3:54

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2017-08-19
Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne

Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 3

11:50

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2017-08-19
Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne

Stravinsky: Faun And Shepherdess for voice and orchestra, Op.2

10:08

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Sophie Koch (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2017-08-19
Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne

1. La Bergère

2:56

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2. Le Faune

3:18

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3. Le Torrent

3:54

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

33:49

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Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 2017-08-19
Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne

1. Introduction

3:36

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2. Les augures printaniers - Danses des adolescentes

3:25

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3. Jeu du rapt

1:19

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4. Rondes printanières

3:31

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5. Jeux des cités

1:50

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6a. Cortège du sage

0:41

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6b. Le sage

0:23

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7. Danse de la terre

1:14

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1. Introduction

4:09

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2. Cercles mysteriéux des adolescentes

3:18

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3. Glorification d'élue

1:26

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4. Évocation des ancêtres

0:39

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5. Action rituelle des ancêtres

3:44

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6. Danse sacrale: l'élue

4:34

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Recording of the Week, Riccardo Chailly conducts a world premiere recording of music by Stravinsky

12th January 2018

James enjoys a stunning new disc of orchestral music by Stravinsky, including the world premiere recording of a recently-discovered early work, Chant funèbre.

Decca has been granted exclusive worldwide rights to make the first recording of Chant Funèbre, the piece everyone believed lost forever.

Riccardo Chailly makes his debut recording with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, marking the beginning of a major new partnership.

The album restores lost work Chant Funèbre in its original Stravinsky opus sequence and adds a sonically spectacular Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring).

“A dazzling programme of Stravinsky. A new era has well and truly begun for the Lucerne Festival Orchestra”. The Times

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February 2018

Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance [of The Rite]…Chailly elicits a rhythmic grip on ‘The Augurs of Spring’ and keeps the ‘Spring Rounds’ flowing nicely, driving the finale to its exhausted collapse.

12th January 2018

You can tell that [Chant funèbre] was written only a year or so before The Firebird: the mournful double basses in the very first bar sound like they could have come straight from the later work. It’s a magnificent piece, and it’s thrilling to hear it finally...The level of detail [in The Rite] is quite extraordinary: the myriad woodwind lines that often get buried in the mix can be effortlessly heard.

10th January 2018

What makes Chant Funèbre so fascinating is not that it illuminates more detail of Stravinsky’s journey towards the three ballet scores for Diaghilev that would make his name, but how it reveals a path he would not explore any further...Chailly follows it with three other early pieces...The whole sequence, brilliantly coloured and played with immaculate precision by the LFO, takes up half of this disc.

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Recording of the Week, Riccardo Chailly conducts a world premiere recording of music by Stravinsky