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Special offer. Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat

Denis Podalydès (Le Soldat), Michel Vuillermoz (Le Diable), Didier Sandre (Le Lecteur); Orchestre de Paris, Olivier Charlier

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
It’s superbly acted…Vuillermoz makes a seductive, insidious Devil, though the great performance comes from Denis Podalydès’s beautifully realised Soldier…The playing is dexterous, svelte, at...

Gramophone Magazine, November 2018

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Special offer. Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat

Denis Podalydès (Le Soldat), Michel Vuillermoz (Le Diable), Didier Sandre (Le Lecteur); Orchestre de Paris, Olivier Charlier

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It’s superbly acted…Vuillermoz makes a seductive, insidious Devil, though the great performance comes from Denis Podalydès’s beautifully realised Soldier…The playing is dexterous, svelte, at...

Gramophone Magazine, November 2018

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‘L’Histoire du Soldat’, premiered in September 1918, pays tribute to all those who died in a war that was drawing to an end. The soldier wagers his soul and his fiddle, which will not save him. The Devil always wins. Inspired by the fine text by Ramuz, Stravinsky’s music evokes parades, the circus, jazz… Three peerless storytellers - Denis Podalydès, Didier Sandre, Michel Vuillermoz - and seven instrumentalists; they too play as if their life depended on it, instilling this recording with an energy as expressive as it is Mephistophelean.

  • Release date: 28th Sep 2018
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Catalogue number: HMM902354
  • Length: 57 minutes
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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat, Première partie
Work length26:13
  • Michel Vuillermoz (soloist), Didier Sandre (soloist), Denis Podalydès (soloist), Olivier Charlier (soloist)
  • Ensemble instrumental
  • Jean-Christophe Gayot
I. Marche du soldat. Airs de marche
Track length2:53
II. Musique de la première scène. Petits airs au bord du ruisseau
Track length6:14
III. Marche du soldat. Airs de marche (reprise)
Track length4:12
IV. Musique de la deuxième scène. Pastorale
Track length7:48
V. Musique de la troisième scène. Petits airs au bord du ruisseau (reprise)
Track length4:19
VI. Musique de la troisième scène (reprise)
Track length0:47
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat, Deuxième partie
Work length31:46
  • Didier Sandre (soloist), Denis Podalydès (soloist), Michel Vuillermoz (soloist), Olivier Charlier (soloist)
  • Ensemble instrumental
  • Jean-Christophe Gayot
VII. Marche du soldat. Airs de marche (reprise)
Track length3:40
VIII. Marche royale
Track length7:13
IX. Petit Concert
Track length3:13
X. Trois Danses. Tango - Valse - Ragtime
Track length6:50
XI. Danse du diable
Track length1:35
XII. Petit Choral
Track length0:45
XIII. Couplet du diable
Track length0:45
XIV. Grand Choral
Track length5:23
XV. Marche triomphale du Diable
Track length2:22

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November 2018

It’s superbly acted…Vuillermoz makes a seductive, insidious Devil, though the great performance comes from Denis Podalydès’s beautifully realised Soldier…The playing is dexterous, svelte, at times flamboyant.
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