Stravinsky & Bartók: Ballet Music

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Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4840180
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Stravinsky: The Firebird

Work length45:36

$15.40

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1979-10
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Introduction

Track length2:23

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Kashchei's enchanted garden

Track length2:08

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Appearance of the Firebird pursued by Ivan Tsarevich

Track length2:09

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Dance of the Firebird

Track length1:13

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Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird

Track length0:50

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Supplication of the Firebird

Track length8:01

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Game of the Princesses with the golden apples

Track length2:12

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Sudden appearance of Ivan Tsarevich

Track length1:30

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Round dance of the Princesses

Track length4:00

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Daybreak

Track length1:30

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Magic carillon, appearance of Kashchei's guardian monsters and capture of Ivan Tsarevich

Track length5:06

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Dance of Kashchei's retinue under the spell of the Firebird

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Infernal dance of all Kashchei's subject's

Track length10:31

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Collapse of Kashchei's palace and dissolution of all enchantments - Reanimation of the petrified prisoners - General rejoicing

Track length3:19

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part I: Adoration of the Earth

Work length16:14

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Lorin Maazel
Recorded: 1974-03
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

1. Introduction

Track length3:26

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2. Les augures printaniers - Danses des adolescentes

Track length3:08

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3. Jeu du rapt

Track length1:21

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4. Rondes printanières

Track length4:07

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5. Jeux des cités

Track length1:54

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6. Cortège du sage - Le sage

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7a. Le sage

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7b. Adoration of the Earth

Track length1:14

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: Part II: Le Sacrifice

Work length18:29

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Lorin Maazel
Recorded: 1974-03
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

1. Introduction

Track length4:18

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2. Cercles mysteriéux des adolescentes

Track length3:26

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3. Glorification d'élue

Track length1:36

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4. Évocation des ancêtres

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5. Action rituelle des ancêtres

Track length3:32

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6. Danse sacrale: l'élue

Track length4:41

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Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Version 1947 / Scene 1

Work length10:06

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1977-12-15
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Part 1 - Shrovetide Fair - Danse Russe

Track length10:06

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Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Version 1947 / Scene 2

Work length4:31

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1977-12-15
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Part 2 - Petrushka

Track length4:31

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Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Version 1947 / Scene 3

Work length7:02

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1977-12-15
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Part 3 - The Blackamoor - Valse

Track length7:02

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Stravinsky: Petrouchka - Version 1947 / Scene 4

Work length14:27

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Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1977-12-15
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

Part 4 - Shrovetide Fair - The Death of Petrushka

Track length14:27

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Bartók: Two Portraits Op. 5

Work length11:42

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Erich Binder (violin)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1979-09-26
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

1. "Ideal"

Track length9:19

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2. "Distorted"

Track length2:23

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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, BB 82, Sz. 73 (Op.19) - Complete ballet - Pantomime in 1 Act by Melchior Lengyel

Work length31:32

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Christoph von Dohnányi
Recorded: 1977-11-24
Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna

1. Allegro

Track length3:16

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2. 1st Decoy Game (Moderato)

Track length3:39

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3. 2nd Decoy Game

Track length3:04

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4. 3rd Decoy Game (Sostenuto)

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5. Maestoso

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6. Allegro

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7. Sempre vivo

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8. Adagio

Track length3:20

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9. Agitato

Track length1:29

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10. Molto moderato

Track length1:46

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11. Piu mosso

Track length2:05

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Stravinsky’s ground-breaking trilogy of Diaghilev commissions plus a scandalous Bartók ballet, treated to sumptuous late-70s Decca engineering and the Vienna Philharmonic sound.

Christoph von Dohnányi has long been considered one of the most versatile conductors of our time, making a name for himself in particular with the works of Romanticism and the Second Viennese School. From early in his career he established an excellent rapport with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and both in concert and on record drew from them playing of unusual transparency and clean attacks in music from Mendelssohn to Philip Glass.

This generous Eloquence anthology of four complete Decca LPs brings together the Vienna Philharmonic’s only Stravinsky recordings for Decca and finds Dohnányi on home turf, with ballets by his countryman Bartók and by Stravinsky that leap from the speakers thanks to both the conductor’s vivid characterisation and to first-class Decca analogue sound. Petrushka and The Miraculous Mandarin (complete with chorus) were taped in the Sofiensaal in 1977, with The Firebird following two years later. In the same 1979 sessions Dohnányi and the VPO also recorded the pair of Portraits which the young Bartók wrote while in love with the violinist Stefi Geyer: the solo part here is played with luscious tone by the native-Viennese violinist Erich Binder, then leader of both the VPO and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.

The Diaghilev trilogy is completed with Lorin Maazel’s 1974 VPO recording of The Rite of Spring, done in the grand manner and with the conductor’s typical attention to detail and fine balancing of inner parts.

‘refreshing and illuminating … blistering playing’ Limelight ‘Dohnányi’s direction of The Miraculous Mandarin … is clean, precise and often beautiful … The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is radiantly beautiful, helped by a spacious recording. Erich Binder is a first-class soloist in the Portraits.’ The New Penguin Stereo Record Guide

‘Dohnányi directs a genial and well-paced reading… revealing the Vienna Philharmonic as a band very sympathetic to repertoire not normally associated with it.’ The New Penguin Stereo Record Guide (Petrushka)

Dohnányi's opulent reading goes delightfully counter to the antiseptic dissections that have all too often come to pass for insightful performances; having chosen such an approach, he hardly could have done better than record with the Vienna Philharmonic. The orchestra plays beautifully, with particularly gorgeous contributions from the first oboe and horn in their ubiquitous solos.’ Fanfare, May/June 1981 (Firebird)

‘[In the Bartók] Dohnanyi doesn’t spare them a bit: the chase is one of the most exciting on disc, while the subsequent attack and attempted murder of the Mandarin (with terrifying organ sound) will make your hair stand on end … It’s a great performance, and so is the Petrushka … Sonically this stands among Decca’s best recordings from this source. A sensational reissue…’ ClassicsToday.com

‘First-rate performances of two of the most exciting scores in the twentieth-century ballet repertoire … the VPO’s playing is excellent … a splendid reissue that can be confidently recommended’ MusicWeb

Stravinsky & Bartók: Ballet Music

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