Name: Essential Igor Stravinsky by Igor Stravinsky
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This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of Le Sacre du printemps. That incident seems to be the one thing that everyone knows and remembers about Stravinsky and his music. But that was relatively early in his career. Once you get past the first half of the first disc, with all the familiar themes from Le Sacre, The Firebird, and Petrushka, you get into his neo-Classical works and then his much-less-known, serial-influenced works of the 1950s and '60s. The little surprises among the later works are an orchestration of a Gesualdo madrigal; the brief, profound Elegy for J.F.K.; the somewhat spiky, yet still stately Fanfare for a New Theater; and a clever setting of The Owl and the Pussycat. Most of the excerpts are performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra or other Columbia ensembles, conducted either by Stravinsky himself or by Robert Craft, his assistant in the last 20 years of his life, so they could be called definitive interpretations. There are also a few performances conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas. All in all, this set is a great way to go beyond Le Sacre and get to know Stravinsky and his music better.

Volume 1

1. Fireworks, Op. 4

by Igor Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Primary Artist: Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky; Main Performer
Performer: Igor Stravinsky
Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Performer
Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Ensemble
Composer: Igor Stravinsky; Composer
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky; Conductor
Producer: John Mcclure; Production

8. Petrushka (excerpts): The Shrove-tide Fair

by Michael Tilson Thomas, The Philharmonia Orchestra

Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas
The Philharmonia Orchestra; Performer
Primary Artist: Michael Tilson Thomas
Philharmonia Orchestra; Main Performer
Piano: Vivian Troon; Performer
Orchestra: The Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra; Ensemble
Composer: Igor Stravinsky; Composer
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas; Conductor
Producer: Steven Epstein; Production

Essential Igor Stravinsky

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Volume 2

Volume 1

1. Fireworks, Op. 4

8. Petrushka (excerpts): The Shrove-tide Fair

16. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Jeux des cités rivales (Excerpts)

25. Histoire du Soldat Suite: Marche Royale (Excerpts)

26. Histoire du Soldat Suite: Petit Concert (Excerpts)

2. L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird): Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastchei (Excerpt 1910 Version)

3. L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird): Berceuse (l'Oiseau de feu) (Excerpt 1910 Version)

4. L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird): Reveil de Kastchei (Excerpt 1910 Version)

5. L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird): Mort de Kastchei - Profonds ténèbres (Excerpt 1910 Version)

6. L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird): Disparition du palais et des sortilèges de Kastchei, animation des chevaliers pétrifiés, allegresse générale (Excerpt 1910 Version)

7. Petrushka (excerpts): Scene I - The Shrove-tide Fair/The Charlatan's Booth/Russian Dance

10. Petrushka (excerpts): Russian Dance

11. Petrushka (excerpts): Scene II - Petrushka's Room

12. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Introduction (Excerpts)

13. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Les augures printanières (Danse des adolescentes) (Excerpts)

14. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Jeu du rapt (Excerpts)

15. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Rondes printanières (Excerpts)

17. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Cortège du Sage (Excerpts)

18. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Adoration de la terre (Le Sage) (Excerpts)

19. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring): Danse de la terre (Excerpts)

20. Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra: I. Andante

21. Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra: II. Napolitana

22. Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra: III. Espanola

23. Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra: IV. Balalaika

24. Ragtime

27. Piano-Rag Music

28. Pulcinella Suite: I. Sinfonia: (Ouverture) (Excerpts)

29. Pulcinella Suite: VI. Gavotta con due variazioni (Excerpts)

30. I. Sinfonia. Lento - Allegro moderato from Octet for Wind Instruments (Excerpt)

31. III. Allegro from Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Revised version, 1950) (Excerpt)

9. Petrushka (excerpts): The Charlatan's Booth

Volume 2

2. IV. Capriccio from Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra (Excerpt)

6. III. Allegretto from Symphony in C (Excerpt)

9. Circus Polka

1. Part I. Exaudi orationem meam from Symphony of Psalms (Excerpt)

4. Premiere donne from Jeu de Cartes: Ballet en trois donnes (Excerpt)

5. I. Tempo giusto from Concerto in E-flat for Chamber Orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks" (Excerpt)

7. The Star-Spangled Banner

8. I. Intrada from Four Norwegian Moods for Orchestra (Excerpt)

10. Scherzo à la russe

11. III. Con moto from Symphony in Three Movements (Excerpt)

12. I. Allegro moderato from Ebony Concerto (Excerpt)

13. "Good people, just a moment:..." from The Rake's Progress (Opera in Three Acts - Excerpt)

14. Tango (Version for Orchestra) (Version for 19 Instruments, 1953)

15. Greeting Prelude

16. II. Ma tu, cagion di quella: Madrigale XVIII, Libro quinto from Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa as Cd Annum (Excerpt)

17. Elegy for J.F.K.

18. Fanfare for a New Theatre

19. Requiem Canticles (To the memory of Helen Buchanan Seeger): II. Exaudi (Excerpts)

20. Requiem Canticles (To the memory of Helen Buchanan Seeger): III. Dies Irae (Excerpts)

21. Requiem Canticles (To the memory of Helen Buchanan Seeger): IV. Tuba Mirum (Excerpts)

22. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

23. Stravinsky in His Own Words (narrated by John McClure) from Portrait of Stravinsky: Stravinsky in rehearsal (Excerpt)

3. Pastorale (Version for Violin & Chamber Ensemble)

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