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Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky

Felix Kok & Jeremy Ballard (violins), Peter Cole (viola), Ulrich Heiner (violoncello) & John Tattersdill (double bass), Peter Donohoe (piano), Elaine Donohoe (piano) & Robert Johnston (harp), Jennifer Smith (soprano), John Fryatt (tenor) & Malcolm King (bass), Michael Collins (clarinet)

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Release Date: 9th Feb 2009
Catalogue No: 2427542
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Simon Rattle Edition
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

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Stravinsky: The Firebird - Ballet (1910 version)

Work length46:10

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-10-31
Recording Venue: October 1987, Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Introduction and Scene 1 - Kashchei's enchanted garden

Track length6:21

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Dance of the Firebird

Track length11:09

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The Princesses' game with the golden apples

Track length2:40

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Sudden appearance of Ivan Tsarevich

Track length12:52

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Dance of Kashchei's retinue under Firebird's spell

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Lullaby (Firebird)

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Scene 2 - Disappearance of the palace and dissolution of Kashchei's enchantments - Conclusion

Track length3:10

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Stravinsky: Scherzo a la Russe

Work length3:57

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-01-01
Recording Venue: October 1987, Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Stravinsky: Four Studies (1952 version)

Work length9:38

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-10-01
Recording Venue: October 1987, Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Danse

Track length0:58

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Excentrique

Track length2:05

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Cantique

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Madrid

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Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe (orchestral version, 1943-4)

Work length3:58

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-01-01
Recording Venue: October 1987, Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Stravinsky: Apollo - Ballet en deux tableaux (1947 revised version)

Work length30:08

$13.00

$17.00

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1988-04-01
Recording Venue: April 1988, Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Apollo - Ballet en deux tableaux (1947 revised version), Premier tableau (prologue): Naissance d'Apollon

Track length5:13

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Variation d'Apollon (Apollon et les Muses)

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Pas d'action (Apollon et les trois Muses: Calliope, Polymnie, et Terpsichore)

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Variation de Calliope (l'Alexandrin)

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Variation de Polymnie

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Variation de Terpsichore

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Variation d'Apollon

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Pas de deux (Apollon et Terpsichore)

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Coda (Apollon et les Muses)

Track length3:30

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Apothéose

Track length3:31

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, 'Le sacre du printemps' (1947 revised version), Part 1

Work length35:04

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-12-31
Recording Venue: December 1987, Arts Centre, University of Warwick

L'adoration de la terre: Introduction - Les augures printaniers - Danse des adolescentes - Jeu de rapt

Track length8:07

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L'adoration de la terre: Rond printanières - Jeux des cités rivales - Cortège de sage

Track length6:09

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L'adoration de la terre: Le sage - Danse de la terre

Track length1:39

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Le sacrifice: Introduction

Track length4:54

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Le sacrifice: Cercles mystérieux des adolescentes

Track length2:59

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Le sacrifice: Glorification de l'élue - Évocation des ancêtres - Action rituelle des aancêtres

Track length6:04

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Le sacrifice: Danse sacrale (l'élue)

Track length5:12

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Stravinsky: Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux,

Work length35:05

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1986-01-01
Recording Venue: 3 & 4 October 1986, Arts Centre, University of Warwick

Fête populaire de la semaine grasse

Track length7:19

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Le tour de passe-passe - Danse russe

Track length2:32

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Petrushka - Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux, Deuxième tableau: Chez Petrushka

Track length4:35

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Chez le maure - Danse de la ballerine

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Valse ( La ballerine et la maure)

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Fête populaire de la semaine grasse

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Danse des nounous

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Paysan et l'ours

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Bohémien et marchand malhonnête

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Danse des cochers et des palefreniers

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Les déguisés

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Le rixe: La maure et Petrushka

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Mort de Petrushka

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Polic et 'enchanteur - Vocifération du double de Petrushka

Track length2:16

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Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Work length21:29

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Elaine Donohoe (piano), Robert Johnston (harp)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1986-10-04
Recording Venue: 3 & 4 October 1986, Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick

I. [crotchet] = 160

Track length9:39

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II. Andante ([quaver] = 76) - Interlude (L'istesso tempo)

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III. Con moto ([crotchet] = 180)

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Stravinsky: Symphony of Winds

Work length9:46

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Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 2007-09-22
Recording Venue: 20th - 22nd September 2007, Philharmonie, Berlin

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

Work length38:59

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John Fryatt (tenor), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Malcolm King (bass)
Northern Sinfonia
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1977-03-29
Recording Venue: 28 & 29 March 1977, Henry Wood Hall, Gosforth, Northern Sinfonia Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

Overture

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Mentre l' erbetta pasce l' agnella (Tenor)

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Contento forse vivere (Soprano)

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Con queste paroline (Bass)

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Sento dire no' nce pace (Trio)

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Una te falan zemprece (Tenor)

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Se tu m' ami (Soprano)

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Gavotta

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Variation 1

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Variation 2

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Pupillette fiammette (Trio)

Track length4:27

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Stravinsky: Two Suites (1987 - Remaster), Suite No. 1

Work length4:55

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Northern Sinfonia
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1978-01-03
Recording Venue: 3 January 1978, Henry Wood Hall, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne

I. Andante

Track length1:24

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II. Napolitana

Track length1:12

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III. Española

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IV. Balalaïka

Track length1:05

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Stravinsky: Two Suites (1987 - Remaster), Suite No. 2

Work length6:09

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Northern Sinfonia
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1978-01-03
Recording Venue: 3 January 1978, Henry Wood Hall, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne

I. Marche

Track length1:31

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II. Valse

Track length1:52

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III. Polka

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IV. Galop

Track length1:55

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Stravinsky: Rag-Time for eleven players

Work length4:42

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1990-10-06
Recording Venue: 4-6 Oct, 1990. Arts Centre, Warwick

Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto

Work length9:08

$3.90

$5.10

Michael Collins (clarinet)
London Sinfonietta
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1987-01-03
Recording Venue: 3 January 1987, CTS Studios, Wembley

I. Allegro moderato

Track length3:04

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II. Andante

Track length2:33

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III. Moderato - Con moto

Track length3:31

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Stravinsky: Agon (extracts)

Work length6:39

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$8.50

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded: 1995-08-12
Recording Venue: 9-15 July & 8-12 August 1995 / Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Gailliarde

Track length1:25

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Coda

Track length1:21

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Interlude

Track length1:00

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Four Duos

Track length0:32

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Four Trios

Track length2:21

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About

On the face of it one would have thought that there was little in common between Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), two interesting facts prove otherwise.

Britten, born in Lowestoft in Suffolk on 22nd November (St. Cecilia’s Day), had already and studied with Frank Bridge by the time he went to Gresham’s School in Holt, Norfolk, in September 1928. The Master in charge of music on meeting him remarked “Oh, you’re the boy who likes Stravinsky!” Today that remark might be considered a compliment, at that time Stravinsky was reviled as THAT composer who had perpetrated the outrage called “The Rite of Spring” fifteen years earlier.

The funeral service for Stravinsky, who died on 6th April 1971 in New York, was held as he had requested in Venice nine days later and he was laid to rest near his friend and ballet impresario, Serge Diaghilev, on the Island of San Michele. Britten, too, had a great love for Venice as can be heard in his last opera based on Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice”.

Both composers are also high on Sir Simon Rattle’s list of favourite composers. In 2003 he and his Berlin Philharmonic gave workshops and a performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to the city’s disadvantaged children and as a past Artistic Director of Britten’s beloved Aldeburgh Festival he has conducted many of his works including a number of those that had been found after the death of the composer.

The box of Stravinsky contains works from all parts of his musical life including six ballets; three major ones from his youth – The Firebird, showing the inspired palette for exotic colour learnt from his teacher, Rimsky-Korsakov, Petrushka (in its revised version of 1947) and The Rite of Spring; two in his Neo-Classical style – Apollo and Pulcinella and extracts from Agon which shows the influence of his studies of serial technique as expounded by Anton Webern. There are also a number of his works that were inspired by jazz.

The box of Britten contains besides the three great song cycles (Les Illuminations, Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings and Nocturne) the “War Requiem”, “Sinfonia da Requiem”, the ever popular “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” and the most remarkable set of songs written in French when he was 15, “Quatre Chansons Françaises”.

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker, Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky

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