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Igor Stravinsky's Three Pieces for solo clarinet, revised and
edited by Nicholas Hare in 1993.
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Firebird (Paperback)
Igor Stravinsky
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Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballets Russes, this dazzling piece brought overnight success to its composer. Based on a series of Russian fairy tales, Stravinsky's modern masterpiece is greatly admired for its brilliant orchestration and harmony, and it remains as popular today as at its 1910 premiere.
Simon Rattle conducts violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Berliner
Philharmoniker in their annual Europa Konzert, recorded live at the
Hungarian State Opera in Budapest.
Definitive original edition of Stravinsksy's score for the Ballets Russes masterpiece Petrushka. Finest inexpensive edition.
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography
by Jirí Kylián is set to Stravinsky's 'Les noces' and 'Symphony of
Psalms', and Tôru Takemitsu's 'Torso'. Among the dancers are Shane
Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg.
The Kreutzer Quartet performs four 20th century pieces written for
string quartet. The quartet, comprised of Peter Sheppard Skærved on
violin, Mihailo Trandafilovski on violin, Morgan Goff on viola and
Neil Heyde on cello, apply their talents to Stravinsky's 'Three
Pieces for String Quartet' (1914), Lutoslawski's 'String Quartet'
(1964), Ligeti's 'String Quartet No. 2' (1968) and Finnissy's
'Second String Quartet' (2007).
Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, is equally celebrated as the
composer of madrigals of great power and tortured complexity and as
the murderer of his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. His
life and compositions are not unconnected. His neurotic sensibility
found an ideal outlet in the mannerist tendencies of late
Renaissance music, and his works are the most extreme examples of
those tendencies. Watkins's extended study of Gesualdo's life and
works was originally published in 1973. Alongside detailed analysis
of Gesualdo's remarkable madrigals and of the few works in other
genres, it contained much new biographical material, particularly
on the latter part of the composer's life. This new edition has
been extensively updated, and contains a new chapter covering the
research of recent years. The preface to the first edition, by Igor
Stravinsky is reprinted.
An Autobiography chronicles the first half-century of Stravinsky's
life, all the while offering his opinions and "abhorrences." A
Parsifal performance at Bayreuth? "At the end of a quarter of an
hour I could bear no more." Nijinsky? "The poor boy knew nothing of
music." Spanish folk music? "Endless preliminary chords of guitar
playing."
Documentary about Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and his
short-lived career in the film industry. The documentary features
archive footage, movie clips from the 1940s and interviews with
both the man himself and his assistant Robert Craft.
Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as they perform a
selection of favourites at a summer picnic concert at the Berlin
Waldbuhne in 2009.
Two episodes from the documentary series featuring performances by
the All-Star Orchestra, which is comprised of the best players from
30 American orchestras. As well as performances, the series
includes interviews with the players and conductor Gerard Schwarz,
providing insight into each piece of music. The episodes 'Music for
the Theatre' and 'What Makes a Masterpiece' feature works by
Stravinsky, Ravel, Bright Sheng, Beethoven and Philip Glass.
Collection of scenes from 12 productions performed at the
Glyndeboure Festival Opera over the last 13 years. The operas
featured are: 'Le nozze di Figaro', 'The Cunning Little Vixen',
'Gianni Schicchi', 'Cosi fan tutte', 'Billy Budd', 'Falstaff',
'Carmen', 'Giulio Cesare', 'Tristan und Isolde', 'The Rake's
Progress', 'La Cenerentola' and 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'.
Valery Gergiev leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in this
Russian-themed opening night of the 2012 Salzburg Festival.
Alongside performances of Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms' and
Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, Russian tenor Sergei Semishkur gives a
passionate interpretation of Mussorgsky's 'Songs and Dances of
Death'.
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony for this
performance of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', which was
originally broadcast by the American television channel PBS in 2006
as part of the 'Keeping Score' classical music series.
Glyndebourne's Musical Director Vladimir Jurowski leads the London
Philharmonic and the Glyndebourne Chorus in this production of
Stravinsky's opera recorded live in December 2010. Performers
featured include Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Clive Bayley and
Matthew Rose.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1962.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1962.
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