There are many good reasons to get this Stravinsky recording. It has premieres of four Stravinsky works: a blistering transcription of the 1940 Tango for violin and piano, a hilarious early song called "The Mushrooms Going to War," a swinging swipe at La Marseillaise as a piece for solo violin, and the goofy musical telegram Petit Ramusianum Harmonique. It has performances of four rarely played Stravinsky works: the short but tough Fanfare for a New Theater, the dour but delightful Lied ohne Namen for two bassoons, the ...
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There are many good reasons to get this Stravinsky recording. It has premieres of four Stravinsky works: a blistering transcription of the 1940 Tango for violin and piano, a hilarious early song called "The Mushrooms Going to War," a swinging swipe at La Marseillaise as a piece for solo violin, and the goofy musical telegram Petit Ramusianum Harmonique. It has performances of four rarely played Stravinsky works: the short but tough Fanfare for a New Theater, the dour but delightful Lied ohne Namen for two bassoons, the sweetly lyrical Pastorale for violin and winds, and the drolly amusing Pribaoutki. It also has performances of two of Stravinsky's other works for mixed chamber ensemble: the "musical object" he called Octet and suite from the on-the-cheap retelling of the Faust story he called L'histoire du soldat. The premieres are worth it for the "got-to-have-it-all" Stravinsky collectors, and the Tango and La Marseillaise would make terrific encores. The rarities are worth it for the...
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