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Composer:
Igor Stravinsky

Artist(s):
Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble
Mark Wait

Conductor:
Robert Craft

Background: Commissioned by George Balanchine, Jeu de cartes is a prime example of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas emerging helter-skelter from Stravinsky’s imagination. Unlike his other ballets, it contains no slow music and no lovers’ pas-de-deux adagio.

Danses concertantes was the first large-scale piece composed entirely in what was to be Stravinsky’s Hollywood home for the next 24 years.

First performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Robert Craft, Variations are the densest music Stravinsky ever wrote, yet the ingenious rhythmic structures allow every note to be heard. Ezra Pound, in a balcony at the Teatro La Fenice for a September 1934 performance of the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, wrote: 'the piano and orchestra are as two shells of a walnut'. Alban Berg, who had shared the same concert with Stravinsky, remarked to the latter: 'I wish I could write such happy music'.

CATALOGUE NR: 8557506
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 26-Nov-2007

COMPOSER: Igor Stravinsky
TITLE: Later Ballets
TRACKS: Jeu de cartes. Danses concertantes. Scènes de Ballet. Variations. Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra - Rubies from the ballet Jewels.
ORCHESTRA: Philharmonia Orchestra and St Luke's Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Robert Craft
ARTISTS: Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble   Mark Wait    

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