Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
2/5. The Ballets Russes
Tuesday 19 April 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Tuesday 26 April 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Donald Macleod charts how Stravinsky's name was established outside Russia through his collaboration with the Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev.
Playlist
Two Poems of Paul Verlaine
John Shirley Quirk (baritone), Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 431 751-2, Tracks 2 to 3
Excerpt from Act 1, Oedipus Rex
Thomas Moser (tenor), Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone), Male Chorus of Bavarian Radio, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
Orfeo C071-831 A, Track 1
Stravinsky archive
Sony SM2K46294, Track 11
The Rite of Spring (excerpt from Part 1)
Orchestre de la Sociétè du Conservatoire de Paris, Pierre Monteux (conductor)
Decca 440 064-2, Track 5
Les Noces: 1st tableau La tresse
Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Hugues Cuénod (tenor), Heinz Rehfuss (bass), The Motet Choir of Geneva, Vladimir Diakoff (bass), Renée Peter, Doris Rossiaud, Roger Aubert (pianos), Jacques Horneffer (director and piano)
Decca 443 467-2, CD2 Track 1
Symphonies of wind instruments
Detroit Chamber Winds and Friends
Koch 372112, Track 1
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