Given all the great orchestral music written by Stravinsky, it's easy to forget that he was also a pianist. He often transcribed his works for piano, piano duet, or in this case, piano roll. The three works here give some insight to not only his own performance style, but also to how he recognized that a player piano is a different animal than a ...
At the end of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky's stock was riding high as critics of various kinds began to agree separately that he may have been the greatest composer of the Modern Era. However, even before that, critical appraisals of Stravinsky's work as a conductor took an about-face. During his lifetime, and even a little after, ...
This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of ...
If this Gala reissue is your first exposure to Igor Stravinsky's neo-Classical opera The Rake's Progress (1951), postpone listening to it until you've heard a good contemporary recording or two. Stravinsky's first account, recorded at the opera's premiere in Venice on September 11, 1951, is somewhat faulty in performance and deficient in sound ...
If this 2008 Opera d'Oro reissue is your first exposure to Igor Stravinsky's neo-Classical opera The Rake's Progress (1951), postpone listening to it until you've heard a good contemporary recording or two. Stravinsky's first account, recorded at the opera's premiere in Venice on September 11, 1951, is somewhat faulty in performance and deficient ...
Music & Arts' Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Concert Performances 1951-1957 literally picks up where the previous release of this kind -- Igor Stravinsky Conducts His Own Works -- left off. Taken from radio tapes of concerts, primarily of German origin, these performances are lovingly restored by expert transfer engineer Maggi Payne. The entire ...
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