Stravinsky - a few samples

05.10.2011

Överförd av dwiggy den 17 sep 2009

Recréation par le Joffrey Ballet de la chorégraphie originale de Nijinsky pour "Le Sacre du printemps" d'Igor Stravinsky (1913)

Överförd av BerlinPhil den 30 mar 2011

Full-length concert at http://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/1658

Igor Stravinsky: Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) / Barbara Hannigan, soprano · Edgaras Montvidas, tenor · Pierre Boulez, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 18 September 2010

The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall:
http://www.digital-concert-hall.com

Överförd av CaptainBluebear08 den 27 jul 2009 - Klemperer conducts Stravinsky's

symphony in 3 movements.

Överförd av puncuspallinus den 16 aug 2010

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Babel (1944) - Festival Singers of Toronto (dir. Elmer Iseler) e CBC Symphony Orchestra diretti da Igor Stravinsky

Överförd av EuchridEucrow1 den 1 maj 2009

Something of an oddity in the composer's cannon, the Preludium was written between 1936-37 and, aside from the "Ebony Concerto", is the only piece Stravinsky wrote for a band.

At this point he had abandoned most of the Russian folk influence that garnishes his earliest period, and eschewed orchestras in favour of smaller ensembles (usually wind).

With his penchant for off-beat rhythms and lyricism, it's easy to see why Stravinsky may have been drawn to jazz. Django Reindhardt had popularized Gypsy Jazz only a few years before. Nontheless, this composition is entirely in Stravinsky's own style.

The portrait, of course, is courteosy of the hand of Pablo Picasso.

Överförd av dgaranin den 4 sep 2010

Igor Stravinsky - Tango for Piano (1940) from Elena Kuschnerova's Stravinsky CD: http://radio-elena.com/kuschnerova-cd.php#stravinsky-cd .

Please, listen to Radio Pianoforte - Radio Elena at http://radiopianoforte.com

Överförd av MothmanCometh den 12 maj 2009

Igor Stravinsky, Elegy for solo viola (1944)

Played flawlessly by Miles Hoffman.
(His channel is MilesHoffmanViola)

This short 5-minute work remains to be Stravinsky's only contribution to viola literature.
It has been said that world renowned violist William Primrose once proposed
commissioning a viola concerto from Stravinsky, but Stravinsky was not interested in the
project, so he went to Bartok instead who did agree to the offer. The Elegy was commissioned by Germain Prevost to honor the memory of Alphonse Onnou (1893-1940). Prevost, who was an extremely sentimental man, not only commissioned Stravinsky for this work, but also his friend Darius Milhaud, who wrote three works for viola and piano in memory of Onnou as well. Undoubtedly in the
war torn year of 1944, in which this work was composed, there were many victims
worthy of this somber token of remembrance.

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