Fireworks (Feu D'artifice), fantasy for orchestra, Op. 4
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastchei
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Berceuse (l'Oiseau de feu)
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Reveil de Kastchei
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Mort de Kastchei - Profonds ténèbres
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Disparition du palais et des sortilèges de Kastchei, animation des chevaliers pétrifiés, allegresse
Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version): Scene I - Opening
Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version): The Shrove-tide Fair
Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version): The Charlatan's Booth
Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version): Russian Dance
Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for orchestra (1911 version): Scene II - Petrushka's Room
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Introduction
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Les augures printanières (Danse des adolescentes)
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Jeu du rapt
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Rondes printanières
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Jeux des cités rivales
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Cortège du Sage
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Adoration de la terre (Le Sage)
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestra: Danse de la terre
Suite No. 1, for chamber orchestra
Ragtime, for 11 instruments
L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), concert suite for 7 instruments: Marche Royale
L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale), concert suite for 7 instruments: Petit Concert
Piano-Rag-Music, for piano
Pulcinella, ballet with song in 1 act, for 3 vocal soloists & orchestra: Sinfonia (Ouverture)
Pulcinella, ballet with song in 1 act, for 3 vocal soloists & orchestra: Gavotta con due variazioni
Octet for wind instruments: I. Sinfonia
Concerto for piano & wind instruments: III. Allegro
Symphony of Psalms, for chorus & orchestra: Part 1. Exaudi orationem meam
Violin Concerto in D major: 4. Capriccio
Pastorale, song without words for violin & woodwind quartet
Jeu de cartes (Card Game), ballet in "three deals" for orchestra: Premiere donne
Concerto for chamber orchestra in E flat major ("Dumbarton Oaks"): I. Tempo giusto
Symphony in C, for orchestra: III. Allegretto
The Star-Spangled Banner, transcription for orchestra (after John Stafford Smith)
Norwegian Moods (4), for orchestra: I. Intrada
Circus Polka, for orchestra ("for a young elephant")
Scherzo à la Russe, for orchestra
Symphony in Three Movements, for orchestra: III. Con moto
Ebony Concerto, for clarinet & jazz band: I. Allegro moderato
The Rake's Progress, opera in 3 acts: Act 3. Scene 3. Good people, just a moment
Tango, for chamber orchestra
Greeting Prelude, for orchestra
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum, for orchestra: II. Ma tu, cagion di quella: Madrigale XVIII, Libro quinto
Elegy for J. F. K., for voice & 3 clarinets
Fanfare for a New Theater, for 2 trumpets
Requiem Canticles, for 2 vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra: II. Exaudi
Requiem Canticles, for 2 vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra: III. Dies Irae
Requiem Canticles, for 2 vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra: IV. Tuba Mirum
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 ...
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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...
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