Contents
CD 1 Duration: 55 mins.
1: Otche Nash/Отче Наш (The Lord’s Prayer);
2: Petrushka: The Shrovetide Fair;
3: Petrushka: The Shrovetide Fair/Evening; 4: The Firebird’s Dance
5: King Kachtchei’s Infernal Dance; 6: Suite No 1, 1st mve.;
7: Jean Cocteau introduces Oedipus Rex; Creon’s Entrance: soloist: John Shirley-Quirk;
8: Ragtime; 9: Parasha’s Aria/"Девичья песня" from Mavra: soloist: Makavala Kasrashvili;
10: Circus Polka;
11: Violin Concerto/Aria II & Coda: soloist: Kyung-Wha Chung Daughter Milène speaks about the
death of her sister and her mother. Stravinsky speaks: “Music can express nothing....”
12: Symphony of Psalms: 3rd mve. “Laudate”.
13: Stravinsky speaks about music having rules.....
14: The Rite of Spring: The Sacrificial Dance of the Maiden.
CD 2 Duration: 48 mins.
1: The Rake’s Progress: Prelude;
2: The Rakes’ Progress: “The Lullaby” soloist: Felicity Lott.
Vera Stravinsky talks about meeting Igor;
3: Les Noces: Tableau One/four pianos version;
Stravinsky talks about his original idea for Les Noces Les Noces: Tableau Two/original orchestration:
soloists: Felicity Palmer, Sarah Walker, Peter Hall, Stafford Dean;
4: The Mass: “Gloria”; 5: Symphony in Three Movements: 1st mve.; Son Soulima speaks;
6: Introitus;
7: Pulcinella: Minuet & Finale; Balanchine speaks about working with Diaghilev;
8: Canticum Sacrum: “Euntes in mundum”.
9: Daughter Milène talks about her father’s
religion; Requiem Canticles: “Dies Irae”;
10:Stravinsky talks about being a ‘serial’ composer; Abraham and Isaac /”And Abraham took the
wood...” soloist: John Shirley-Quirk;
11:The Fairy’s Kiss: Epilogue “In the land of Eternity”; 12: Requiem Canticles: Postlude; 13: Robert
Craft speaks about why Stravinsky?
14: The Firebird: scene XIV, General Rejoicing.