5013929336735

Late Music: Sensual Musical Radicalism 4CD Box Set

Igor Stravinsky

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Format: 4CD

Cat No: ACMEM367CDX

Release Date:  24 March 2023

Label:  El / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Clamshell

No of Units:  4

Barcode:  5013929336735

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    • 4CD box set of the radical later music of Igor Stravinsky.
    • Including selections from the music that inspired him, from Ravel and Debussy to Stockhausen and John Cage.

    “In the course of his long, and abundantly creative life, Igor Stravinsky produced a highly personal body of work, which seems paradoxically enough, to sum up and embrace all of music itself. From primitive folk art to highly sophisticated serialism, from rarefied church music to outspoken jazz. His textures go from the richest to the leanest. His spirit was both devout and irreverent. His music is, at once, tender and spiky, emotional but anti-romantic. It can be popular and esoteric, nationalistic or intercontinental. In this sense he was probably the most universal composer who ever lived.” Leonard Bernstein

    In 1944 Stravinsky met 20-year old music student Robert Craft, forging a deep friendship and creative partnership that would prove to be decisive in determining the composer's musical direction. With his career at an impasse, Craft encouraged Stravinsky to re- evaluate the possibilities of 12-tone writing; introducing him to works by Schoenberg and Webern and to a generation of young composers with which he was scarcely familiar.

    Stravinsky warmed to this new language and wondered if it might be applied it to something of his own.

    His serial pieces are as Stravinskyan as ‘The Rite of Spring’ or ‘The Firebird’; the brilliant hallmark so admired by Frank Zappa, Ennio Morricone, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Syd Barrett and The Pink Floyd. This edition focusses on the system to which, to a greater or lesser degree, Stravinsky would devote the rest of his life; from the enchanting ‘Septet’ to the last great ballet, ‘Agon’; compositions that both touch the heart and ravish the ear.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Orpheus Weeps for Eurydice - Lento sostenuto
      • 2. Air de danse
      • 3. Sonata Allegro
      • 4. Passacaglia
      • 5. Gigue
      • 6. Pas-de-Quatre
      • 7. Double Pas-de-Quartre
      • 8. Triple Pas-de-Quartre
      • 9. Prélude
      • 10. First Pas-de-Trois - Saraband Step
      • 11. Gailliarde
      • 12. Coda 1
      • 13. Interlude 1
      • 14. Second Pas-de-Trois - Bransle Simple
      • 15. Bransle Gay
      • 16. Bransle Double
      • 17. Interlude 2
      • 18. Pas-de-Deux
      • 19. Coda 2
      • 20. Four Duos
      • 21. Four Trios - Coda
      • 22. Eighth Note = 110
      • 23. Quarter Note = 52
      • 24. Eighth Note = 72
      • 25. Eighth Note = 80
      • 26. Eighth Note = 104
      • 27. EPITAPHIUM
      • 28. DOUBLE CANON
      • 29. Asciugate I Begli Occhi Madrigale XIV, Libro Quinto
      • 30. Ma Tu, Cagion Di Quella Madrigale XVIII, Libro Quinto
      • 31. Belta Poi Che T'Assenti Madrigale II, Libro Sesto
      • 32. Pas-de-Quatre
      • 33. Double Pas-de-Quartre
      • 34. Triple Pas-de-Quartre
      • 35. Prélude
      • 36. First Pas-de-Trois - Saraband Step
      • 37. Gailliarde
      • 38. Coda 1
      • 39. Interlude 1
      • 40. Second Pas-de-Trois - Bransle Simple
      • 41. Bransle Gay
      • 42. Bransle Double
      • 43. Interlude 2
      • 44. Pas-de-Deux
      • 45. Coda 2
      • 46. Four Duos
      • 47. Four Trios - Coda

      Disc 2

      • 1. Kyrie
      • 2. Gloria
      • 3. Credo
      • 4. Sanctus
      • 5. Agnus Dei
      • 6. A Lyke-Wake Dirge - Versus 1
      • 7. Ricercar 1 'The maidens came'
      • 8. A Lyke-Wake Dirge - Versus 2
      • 9. Ricercar 2 'To-morrow shall be my dancing day'
      • 10. A Lyke-Wake Dirge - Versus 3
      • 11. Westron Wind
      • 12. A Lyke-Wake Dirge - Versus 4
      • 13. Dedicato
      • 14. Part I, Euntes in mundum
      • 15. Part II, Surge, aquilo
      • 16. Part III, Ad Tres Virtutes Hortationes
      • 17. Part IV, Brevis Motus Cantilenae
      • 18. Part V, Illi autem profecti
      • 19. A Sermon
      • 20. A Narrative
      • 21. A Prayer
      • 22. ANTHEM (The Dove Descending Breaks the Air)

      Disc 3

      • 1. Musick to hear
      • 2. Full Fathom Five
      • 3. Spring
      • 4. Dirge-Canons (Prelude)
      • 5. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
      • 6. Dirge-Canons (Postlude)
      • 7. Introduction: "Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae"
      • 8. De elegia prima: "Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola civitas" - Diphona I: "Plorans ploravit" - Diphona II: "Vide, Domino"
      • 9. De elegia tertia: I Querimonia: "Aleph. Ego vir videns" - II Sensus spei: "Heth. Misericordiae Domini" - III Solacium: "Res. Judicasti, Domine"
      • 10. De elegia quinta: "Oratio Jeremiae Prophetae"
      • 11. Prelude
      • 12. "Exaudi"
      • 13. "Dies irae"
      • 14. "Tuba mirum"
      • 15. Interlude
      • 16. "Rex tremendae"
      • 17. "Lacrimosa"
      • 18. "Libera me"
      • 19. Postlude
      • 20. Prelude
      • 21. Melodrama
      • 22. The Building of the Ark
      • 23. The Catalogue of the Animals
      • 24. The Comedy
      • 25. The Flood
      • 26. The Covenant of the Rainbow

      Disc 4

      • 1. Invocation of the Nymphs from Daphnis et Chloé
      • 2. Sarabande No.2 Francis Poulenc (piano)
      • 3. Jeux (Games) - poème dansé
      • 4. Vergangenes (The Past) from Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
      • 5. Archetype
      • 6. Transformation
      • 7. Return
      • 8. Memory
      • 9. Soul
      • 10. Präludium from Three pieces for orchestra, op. 6
      • 11. Avant L'artisanat Furieux (Before "The Furious Craftsmanship")
      • 12. Commentaire II de Bourreaux de Solitude (Second commentary on "Hangmen of Solitude")
      • 13. Zeitmasse For Five Woodwinds
      • 14. Il Canto Sospeso (The Suspended Song): Orchestra
      • 15. Circles (excerpt)
      • 16. Sonata 1 from Sonatas and Interludes
      • 17. Density 21.5 for Flute