Special offer. Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de La Fée (divertimento)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Orchestral Choice
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully...
Special offer. Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de La Fée (divertimento)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Orchestral Choice
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully...
About
These two ballets reveal a specific facet of Stravinsky’s genius, his skill in pastiche. Having used music from eighteenth-century Naples for Pulcinella, he turned to Tchaikovsky for Le Baiser de la fée.
On both occasions, he succeeded in transforming the exercise of homage into a highly personal work.
Stravinsky had a special artistic affinity with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which amply repays the debt with this new recording.
Contents and tracklist
Igor Stravinsky, Kelly-Marie Murphy:
Curiosity, Genius, and the Search For Petula Clark
Work length10:17
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno, Paul Appleby, Isabel Leonard, Derek Welton
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2025Orchestral Choice
April 2025
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully recorded artistry of the woodwind especially, Gimeno has gone for full-bodied operatic voices rather than a Pergolesi-and-friends authenticity (which of course wasn’t Stravinsky's intention either).
April 2025
Notwithstanding bright, modern sound, there’s a nostalgic aspect to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s new recording programme under Music Director Gustavo Gimeno, a harking back to past triumphs...The Stravinsky pieces go very well without necessarily displacing established favourites.
