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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 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...
Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 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...
About
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
Contents and tracklist
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
- Sophie Koch (soprano)
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 2017-08-19
- Recording Venue: KKL, Lucerne
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Riccardo Chailly conducts a world premiere recording of music by Stravinsky
12th Jan 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.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2018
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.
