Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Baiser de la fée

On this CD:

1. Symphony in E-Flat, for orchestra in E-flat Major, Op. 1
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Gibson

2. Symphony in C, for orchestra in C Major
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Gibson

3. Ode, elegiacal chant for orchestra
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Gibson

4. Symphony in Three Movements, for orchestra
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Raymond O'Connell
Conducted by Alexander Gibson

5. Symphonies of Wind Instruments, for 23 wind instruments (1947 version)
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Nash Ensemble
Conducted by Simon Rattle

6. Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy’s Kiss), ballet in four scenes for orchestra
Composed by Igor Stravinsky
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Neeme Jarvi

Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Baiser de la fée, Music, Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Gibson, Neeme Järvi, Simon Rattle, Nash Ensemble, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Raymond O'Connell, 20th/21st Century Ballet, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Music, 20th/21st Century Symphony, Ballet, Band, Band Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Symphonic
Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss
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  • Two of Stravinsky's Most Popular Works, Beautifully Done
 Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss

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ASIN: B000CEVU4E
Release Date: 2006-01-17

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. Serenata: Mentre L'Erbetta
  3. I. Scherzino/II. Allegro/III. Andantino/IV. Allegro
  4. Allegretto: Contento Forse Vivere
  5. Allegro Assai
  6. Allegro (Alla Breve): Con Queste Paroline
  7. Largo: Sento Dire No' Nce Pace
  8. Chi Disse Ca La Femmena
  9. Allegro: Nce Sta Quaccuna Po'
  10. Presto: Una Te Fa La 'Nzemprece
  11. Larghetto
  12. Allegro Alla Breve
  13. Allegro Moderato: Tarantella
  14. Andantino: Se Tu M'Ami
  15. Toccata
  16. Allegro Moderato: Gavotta With Two Variations (Allegretto, Allegro)
  17. Vivo
  18. Minuet: Pupillette, Fiammette
  19. Finale: Allegro Assai
  20. Scene I
  21. Scene II
  22. Scene III
  23. Scene IV

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ballet Hits.......2007-03-10

Naxos comes to the rescue again, taking two superb out-of-print recordings and reissuing them on its own label. Stravinsky outdid himself when he rescued some lesser known works by Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky and used his own magic to create a pair of memorable ballets. The perfomances are conducted by Robert Craft, one of the composer's closest friends, and could not be bettered. The mid-1990s sound is first class. At Naxos prices, this CD is a real bargain.

5 out of 5 stars Two of Stravinsky's Most Popular Works, Beautifully Done.......2006-01-31

These mid-90s performances of Pulcinella and The Fairy's Kiss (Baiser de la Fée) conducted by Robert Craft were previously issued on Koch International with different couplings. But issuing them together is a good idea because they are two of Stravinsky's most tuneful, most easily assimilated works based as they are on music of earlier composers and they are given sensational readings here. (I will admit that these works are two of my very favorites by Stravinsky.) One immediately thinks of Pulcinella, based on music by Pergolesi and other early Italians, as being brash and witty, and The Fairy's Kiss as elegant. But in fact each of the works has both of those qualities albeit in somewhat different proportions. Pulcinella is often recognized by folks who don't otherwise know the work well when the 'Vivo' movement is played; that's the section with those sassy trombone smears and the mock-melancholic double bass figures. The Fairy's Kiss, on the other hand, taken as it is from Tchaikovsky themes, sounds in spots almost like an echt-Tchaikovsky ballet until Stravinsky does his witty things with meter and instrumentation. Throughout, though, this is music that could not have been written by anyone other than Stravinsky.

Robert Craft has known this music for fifty years and more. He was, as most know, Stravinsky's acolyte and nearly constant companion in his latter years. He is sometimes thought of as a somewhat pedantic conductor, but in actuality he is not so much pedantic as true to his master, observing all there is in the score - rhythm, nuance, balances, dynamics. And in these two works he conducts them with all the juice they contain. These are lovely, artful, sophisticated performances with immediacy and vitality. Although I own Stravinsky's own recordings of these works, I actually think I prefer these performances, not least because they are in modern sound. But also because they don't hesitate to throw in a little cholesterol which Stravinsky tended to eschew.

It should be pointed out that the fine soloists in Pulcinella are the lovely-voiced soprano Diana Montague (who can forget her recording of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris?), tenor Robin Leggate and basso Mark Beesley. The brashly vital orchestral playing for Pulcinella is by the Philharmonia. The elegant playing for The Fairy's Kiss is by the London Symphony Orchestra.

You cannot go wrong with this CD.

Scott Morrison
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ASIN: B00005ND3M
Release Date: 2002-05-14

Tracks:

  1. The Firebird: Intro
  2. The Firebird: Tableau 1: Kashchei's Magic Garden
  3. The Firebird: Tableau 1: Appearance Of The Firebird Pursued By Prince Ivan
  4. The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Firebird's Dance
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  7. The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Princesses' Game With The Golden Apples
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  9. The Firebird: Tableau 1: The Princesses' Round-Dance
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  12. The Firebird: Tableau 1: Dance Of Kashcheis Retinue Under The Firebird's Spell
  13. The Firebird: Tableau 1: Infernal Dance Of All Kashchei's Subjects
  14. The Firebird: Tableau 1: Lullaby (The Firebird)/Kashchei Awakes/Death Of Kashchei/Darkness
  15. The Firebird: Tableau 2: Dissolution Of The Palace And Kashchei's Spells/Animation Of The...
  16. The Song Of The Nightingale: Feast In The Emperor's Palace
  17. The Song Of The Nightingale: The Two Nightingales
  18. The Song Of The Nightingale: Illness And Recovery Of The Emperor Of China

Tracks:

  1. Petrouchka: Tableau 1: The Shrovetide Fair
  2. Petrouchka: Tableau 2: In Petrushka's Room
  3. Petrouchka: Tableau 3: In The Moor's Room
  4. Petrouchka: Tableau 4: The Shrovetide Fair, Evening
  5. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Intro
  6. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Augurs Of Spring/Dances Of The Young Girls
  7. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of Abduction
  8. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Spring Rounds
  9. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Ritual Of The Rival Tribes
  10. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Procession Of The Sage
  11. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: The Sage
  12. The Rite Of Spring: The Adoration Of The Earth: Dance Of The Earth
  13. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Intro
  14. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls
  15. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Glorification Of The Chosen One
  16. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Evocation Of The Ancestors
  17. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Ritual Action Of The Ancestors
  18. The Rite Of Spring: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance: The Chosen One

Tracks:

  1. Pulcinella: Ov: Allegro Moderato
  2. Pulcinella: Serenata: Larghetto 'Mentre L'Erbetta' - Carlo Franzini
  3. Pulcinella: Scherzino: Allegro
  4. Pulcinella: Allegro
  5. Pulcinella: Andantino
  6. Pulcinella: Allegro
  7. Pulcinella: Ancora Poco Meno 'Contento Forse Vivere' - Marilyn Tyler
  8. Pulcinella: Allegro Assai
  9. Pulcinella: Allegro - Alla Breve 'Con Queste Paroline' - Boris Carmeli
  10. Pulcinella: Largo 'Sento Dire No'nce Pace' - Marilyn Tyler/Carlo Franzini/Boris Carmeli
  11. Pulcinella: Allegro - Alla Breve
  12. Pulcinella: Tarantella
  13. Pulcinella: Andantino 'Se Tu M'Ami' - Marilyn Tyler
  14. Pulcinella: Allegro
  15. Pulcinella: Allegro
  16. Pulcinella: Gavotta Con Due Vars
  17. Pulcinella: Tempo Di Minuetto 'Pupilette, Fiammette D'Amore' - Marilyn Tyler/Carlo Franzini/Boris Carmeli
  18. Pulcinella: Allegro Assai
  19. Apollo: Prologue: Naissance D'Apollon
  20. Apollo: Var D'Apollon: Apollon Et Les Muses
  21. Apollo: Pas D'Action
  22. Apollo: Var De Calliope
  23. Apollo: Var De Polymnie
  24. Apollo: Var De Terpsichore
  25. Apollo: Var D'Apollon
  26. Apollo: Pas De Deux
  27. Apollo: Coda: Apollon Et Les Muses
  28. Apollo: Apotheose

Tracks:

  1. The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 1: Prologue
  2. The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 2: A Village Fete
  3. The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 3: By The Mill
  4. The Fairy's Kiss: Scene 4. Epilogue: Lullaby Of The Land Beyond Time And Place
  5. Renard (A Burlesque Story To Be Sung And Played) - Gerald English/John Mitchinson/Peter Glossop/Joseph Rouleau/John Leach

Tracks:

  1. The Soldier's Tale: Marche Du Soldat - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  2. The Soldier's Tale: Musique Pour Scene 1 - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  3. The Soldier's Tale: Musique Pour Scene 2 - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  4. The Soldier's Tale: Marche Royale - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  5. The Soldier's Tale: Petit Conc - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  6. The Soldier's Tale: Tango - Waltz - Ragtime - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  7. The Soldier's Tale: Danse Du Diable - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  8. The Soldier's Tale: Chorale - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  9. The Soldier's Tale: Marche Triomphale Du Diable - Michael Schwalbe/Hans Fryba/Leon Hoogstoal/Henri Helaerts/Paolo Longinotti/Pierre Aubapan...
  10. Pulcinella: Sinf
  11. Pulcinella: Serenata
  12. Pulcinella: Scherzino
  13. Pulcinella: Allegro
  14. Pulcinella: Andantino
  15. Pulcinella: Tarantella
  16. Pulcinella: Toccata
  17. Pulcinella: Gavotta Con Due Vars
  18. Pulcinella: Vivo
  19. Pulcinella: Minuetto
  20. Pulcinella: Finale

Tracks:

  1. Sym in C: I. Moderato Alla Breve
  2. Sym in C: II. Larghetto Conc
  3. Sym in C: III. Allegretto
  4. Sym in C: IV: Largo - Tempo Giusto Alla Breve
  5. Sym in Three Movts: I. 1/2nt = 160
  6. Sym in Three Movts: II. Andante
  7. Sym in Three Movts: III. Con Moto
  8. Syms Of Wind Instruments

Tracks:

  1. Con: Largo - Allegro - Nikita Magaloff
  2. Con: Largo - Nikita Magaloff
  3. Con: Allegro - Nikita Magaloff
  4. Capriccio: Presto - Nikita Magaloff
  5. Capriccio: Andante Rapsodico - Nikita Magaloff
  6. Capriccio: Allegro Capriccioso Ma Tempo Giusto - Nikita Magaloff
  7. Ste No.1: Andante
  8. Ste No.1: Napolitana - L'Orch De La Suisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet L
  9. Ste No.1: Espanola
  10. Ste No.1: Balalaika
  11. Ste No.2: Marche
  12. Ste No.2: Valse
  13. Ste No.2: Polka
  14. Ste No.2: Galop
  15. 4 Etudes: Danse
  16. 4 Etudes: Excentrique
  17. 4 Etudes: Cantique
  18. 4 Etudes: Madrid
  19. Scherzo A La Russe

Tracks:

  1. Sym Of Psalms: I. Psaume XXXIX - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
  2. Sym Of Psalms: II. Psaume XL - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
  3. Sym Of Psalms: III. Psaume CL - Choeur De Radio Lausanne/Andre Charlet
  4. The Wedding: Tableau 1: At The Bride's - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
  5. The Wedding: Tableau 2: At The Bridegroom's - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
  6. The Wedding: Tableau 3: The Bride's Departure - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
  7. The Wedding: Tableau 4: The Wedding Feast - Basia Retchitzka/Lucienne Devallier/Hugues Cuenod/Heinz Rehfuss/Vladimir Diakoff/Motet De Geneve...
  8. Mavra: Ov
  9. Mavra: Air - Joan Carlyle
  10. Mavra: Gypsy Song - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle
  11. Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Joan Carlyle
  12. Mavra: Air - Helen Watts
  13. Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
  14. Mavra: Duet - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
  15. Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair/Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
  16. Mavra: Qt - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair/Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
  17. Mavra: Dialogue - Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair
  18. Mavra: Duet - Joan Carlyle/Kenneth Macdonald
  19. Mavra: Dialogue - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle/Helen Watts
  20. Mavra: Air - Kenneth Macdonald
  21. Mavra: Coda - Kenneth Macdonald/Joan Carlyle/Helen Watts/Monica Sinclair

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hours and hours of fun!.......2007-01-24

Renard alone makes this set worthwhile. No other recorded performance (including Stravinsky's own) brings out the humor and basic "enjoyability" of this piece.

5 out of 5 stars Prodigious performances!.......2006-10-17

Ernest Ansermet' s refined style was always supported by an admirable incisiveness around all what he conducted. And his Stravinsky still stands as one of the most perfect, idiomatic and extraordinary readings ever made; hovered with that deep vision and knower of the Stravinsky' s aesthetic; Ansermet always to blend power, febrile imagination and musculature, among his best achievements I should remark his Fairy' s kiss, The game of cards, Petrouchka, and the thundering Le Sacre are played with the right balance between abstraction and finesse; expression and sumptuous lyricism.

So you should not hesitate just for a second at the moment to decide to go for this special compilation.

Absolutely recommended.

5 out of 5 stars Ansermet & Stravinsky - A Perfect Pair.......2003-05-19

This 8 CD collection of Stravinsky's Ballets, Stage Works and Orchestral Works is nothing short of magical. Conducted in its entirety by Ernest Ansermet leading the orchestra he founded, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, this box set, while not complete, features all the great Stravinsky compositions -- "Firebird," "Rite of Spring," "Petrouchka," "Pulcinella," and all the Symphonies among others. Unlike most of history's great composers, Stravinsky himself was able to conduct and record his own music in stereo, so why not just get those discs? Well you should, but the Ansermet recordings generally offer superior sound and clarity. In fact, Ansermet was Stravinsky's personal choice to conduct the world premieres of many of his recordings, and Ansermet was selected by the composer to introduce the three famous ballets to U.S. audiences. A mathematician prior to his life as a conductor, Ansermet had his critics as he was virtually self-taught, though he did study music as a youth. But that mathematics background served him well in the studio as his early stereo recordings of everything from Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev to Falla and Chausson are engineered to perfection, and often sound better than the recordings by so-called more famous conductors. But don't take my word for it, buy some Ansermet for yourself and see. If you are not prepared to get this Stravinsky Box right away, then ease in with the new Ernest Ansermet "Great Conductors of the Century" compilation (see my review). You won't be disappointed.
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Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

  1. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene I - Prologue
  2. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene II: A Village Fete
  3. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: By The Mill
  4. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: Pas de deux -- Entree
  5. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: Adagio
  6. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: Variation
  7. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: Coda
  8. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene III: Scene
  9. Le baiser de la Fee: Scene IV: Epilogue - (Berceuse Of The Eternal Dwellings)
  10. Symphony In C: I Moderato alla breve
  11. Symphony In C: II Larghetto
  12. Symphony In C: III Allegretto
  13. Symphony In C: IV Largo, Tempo giusto, alla breve
  14. Symphony In C: Rehearsal Fragment - (End Of The First Movement Of Symphony In C)

Tracks:

  1. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Overture: Allegro moderato
  2. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Serenata. Larghetto
  3. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Scherzino. Allegro
  4. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Pio - Allegro
  5. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Andantino
  6. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro
  7. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Ancora poco meno ('Contento forse')
  8. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro assai
  9. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro - alla breve ('Con queste')
  10. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Andante ('Sento dire')
  11. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro ('Nce sta')
  12. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Presto ('Una te fallan')
  13. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro - alla breve
  14. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Tarantella
  15. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Andantino ('Se tu m' ami')
  16. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro
  17. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Gavotta (Allegro moderato)
  18. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Variation Ia. Allegretto
  19. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Variation IIa. Allegro pito moderato
  20. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Vivo
  21. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Tempo di minuetto ('Pupillette')
  22. Pulcinella - (Ballet With Song In One Act After Pergolesi - Complete): Allegro assai
  23. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: The Soldierr's March
  24. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Soldier At The Brook
  25. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Pastorale
  26. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: The Royal March
  27. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: The Little Concerto
  28. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Three Dances: Tango
  29. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Three Dances: Waltz
  30. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Three Dances: Ragtime
  31. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: The Devil's Dance
  32. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Chorale
  33. L' Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Triumphal March Of The Devil
  34. Octet For Wind Instruments: I Sinfonia
  35. Octet For Wind Instruments: II Tema con variazioni
  36. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione A
  37. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione B
  38. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione A
  39. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione C
  40. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione D
  41. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione A
  42. Octet For Wind Instruments: Variazione E
  43. Octet For Wind Instruments: Finale (Tempo giusto)

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Stravinsky recorded many of his works more than once, becoming more adept as a conductor as the years went by. These recordings from the 1950s are not his last word and sometimes (most notably with the singers in Pulcinella) the performance falls far short of his later, stereo remakes. But at their best, particularly in the Octet and the L'Histoire du Soldat suite, these performances are dazzling. They reflect a time when Stravinsky was younger and more vigorous than in the stereo era, and they deserve to be well known. --Joe McLellan

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The fusion of two composers through the times!.......2005-08-11

Pulcinella: a "ballet with songs" in one act and eight scenes, was composed in 1919-1920. The relation between both composers Pergolesi and Stravinsky is far from being obscure. There's an admirable blending process: The instrumentation is purely Stravinsky and the melodies are all by Giovanni Baptista. Even the forms of the individual pieces sometimes have been lifted whole and without change from Pergolesi, but other times they have been expanded or remodeled to a very considerable degree.
Stravinsky remembers the production of Pulcinella at the Paris opera in 1920, as one of his most theatrical experiences. Imagine the prodigious spectacle: scenery and costumes by Picasso and Ernest Ansermet conducting: A true God's dish.
In this recording we have to the composer in front of one of the most dynamical orchestras at that special moment. Recorded in December 14, 1953, Severance Hall, Cleveland.
The exquisite cast included Mary Simmons, Soprano, Glenn Schnittke, Tenor and Phillip MacGregor, Bass.
The kiss of the fairy has other superior readings such Ansermet Suisse Romande for instance and I guess The Symphony in C is interesting but without dazzling spirit.
But the collection is important for all hard collector that wishes to follow the traces of the music in the XX Century.
A historical issue all the way.

5 out of 5 stars Essential recording for a Stravinsky library.......2000-06-29

Igor Stravinsky proves in these recordings that he was a master conductor of his own music. The Pulcinella complete ballet has never sounded so vibrant. The Symphony in C is crisp and energetic with its fourth movement final chorale very poignant. Add the Octet, the Tchaikovskian Fairy's Kiss, and the suite from L'Histoire and you have two very full discs of authoritative Stravinsky. Sony has taken these gems from the early to mid 50s Columbia Masterworks Catalog, remastered the Severance Hall recordings,and has put an excellent package around it. Tim Page may be one of the best writers on music around and these liner notes are no exception. The mono sound is perfectly serviceable. Get this one quick!

5 out of 5 stars A must for lovers of Stravinsky's music.......2000-06-22

This is a truly fantastic CD. I had heard that the early 50s Stravinsky led recordings of his own music were wonderful but I had no idea that they were this good. All of the selections on this two CD package are wonderful; in the case of the Symphony in C, L'Histoire du Soldat, and Pulcinella, they could be first choices for your library. The packaging by Sony Classical is first-rate. Scoop this up before it goes out of print.
Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Baiser de la fée
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Very Good issue for filling in your Stravinsky collection
 Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Baiser de la fée

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IYN2
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

  1. I. Allegro Moderato - Sir Alexander Gibson
  2. II. Scherzo: Allegretto - Sir Alexander Gibson
  3. III. Largo - Sir Alexander Gibson
  4. IV. Finale: Allegro Molto - Sir Alexander Gibson
  5. I. Moderato Alla Breve - Sir Alexander Gibson
  6. II. Larghetto Concertante- - Sir Alexander Gibson
  7. III. Allegretto - Sir Alexander Gibson
  8. IV. Adagio-Tempo Giusto, Alla Breve - Sir Alexander Gibson
  9. I. Eulogy - Sir Alexander Gibson
  10. II. Eclogue - Sir Alexander Gibson
  11. III. Epitaph - Sir Alexander Gibson

Tracks:

  1. I. (Untitled) - Raymond O'Connell
  2. II. Andante: Interlude- - Raymond O'Connell
  3. III. L'istesso Tempo - Raymond O'Connell
  4. Symphonies Of Wind Instruments - Sir Simon Rattle
  5. Scene 1: Prologue: A Storm- - Neeme Jarvi
  6. Scene 2: A Village Fete- - Neeme Jarvi
  7. Scene 3: By The Mill- - Neeme Jarvi
  8. Pas De Deux: I. Entree- - Neeme Jarvi
  9. II. Adagio- - Neeme Jarvi
  10. III. Variation- - Neeme Jarvi
  11. IV. Coda- - Neeme Jarvi
  12. Scene- - Neeme Jarvi
  13. Scene 4: Epilogue: Land Of Eternal Dwelling - Neeme Jarvi

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very Good issue for filling in your Stravinsky collection.......2006-07-22

This collection of four longish symphonic pieces and two shorter works add up, on two CD's to a whopping 149 minutes of music produced by a formidable group of musicians. So, If you need to add these four symphonies, plus 'Ode' and 'The Fairy's Kiss' to your collection, here is a great way to do it. The most interesting slant I find in these works is that 'The Fairy's Kiss' is a ballet based on a Hans Christian Anderson fable, and the ballet was done for Serge Daighilev. Now isn't this exactly the premise of the film, 'The Red Shoes'! I thought I was imagining things when the music reminded me of the score to 'The Red Shoes'. Of course, Stravinsky's music is much better.

The problem is that these are not the works for which Stravinsky is most famous, so as delightful as they are, one longs for the primal strains of 'The Rites of Spring' and 'Les Noces'.

But, It is still Stravinsky, easily the most important composer of the 20th century.

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