The New Stravinsky Complete Edition - Box Set 30CDs

 

Label: DG

Format : Flac track

Cover : Yes

Tracklist :

• The most complete survey of Stravinsky’s works ever compiled – New expanded edition of Deutsche Grammophon’s Complete Edition from 2015

• This new edition marks 50 years since the composer’s death (April 6th)

• Comprising Stage Works (Ballets, Operas, Oratorio), Orchestral, Choral, Solo Vocal, Chamber, Piano, Historical Recordings

• Performed by an array of great Stravinsky interpreters including Abbado, Argerich, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Bernstein, Bostridge, Boulez, Chailly, Craft, Gardiner, Knussen, the Labèques, Langridge, Levine, Maisky, Mustonen, Mutter, Nagano, Pletnev, Pollini, Sacher, Shelton, Terfel. Plus....Stravinsky himself, conducting a 1935 recording of his Violin Concerto.

• New material which expands this edition:

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Seiji Ozawa: Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 769, Orchestrated Stravinsky

LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky – Smith: A Star Spangled Banner arranged & conducted by Stravinsky

The piece Chant funebre, the manuscript lost for over a century, discovered after the last Complete Edition was released. This recording by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly met wide critical acclaim

• 150-page booklet (English, French, German) with Foreword by Roger Wright (former Head of A & R at Deutsche Grammophon) and essays by leading Stravinsky authors Richard Taruskin and Stephen Walsh, with Chronology (Stephen Walsh) and evocative historical photos

• Colour-coded presentation of works

• Synopses of operas and ballets available as a download

CD 1-12 Stage Works

Here you get all the famous ballets, from Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring (all Boulez recordings), through Pulcinella (Abbado) Apollon musagète (Chailly) to Agon, the operas from The Nightingale (Boulez) to The Rake s Progress (Gardiner) and idiosyncratically Stravinskian works like Renard (Chailly), Les Noces (Bernstein) and Mavra (Rozhdestvensky) as well as Oedipus Rex (Philip Langridge under James Levine), and rarities like Persephone and Orpheus

CD 13-18 Orchestral Music

Starting with the almost traditional Symphony no. 1 in E flat (Pletnev), these six CDs bear witness to Stravinsky s incredible stylistic transformation with a rich array of neo-classical works (3 CDs) including the Symphony in C and the Symphony in 3 Movements, delightful miniatures like the two Suites for small orchestra, the concertante works for piano and violin, the jazzy Ebony Concerto and Tango, the hilarious Greeting Prelude written for Pierre Monteux s 80th birthday you ve never heard Happy Birthday to You like this before and the ascetic later works. Rounded off by revised versions (Suites) from Firebird and Petrushka.

CD 19-21 Choral Music

Three CDs of choral music comprising famous works like the Symphony of Psalms (Gardiner) and Mass (Bernstein), but also many rarities: short Russian sacred works, Babel, Threni (Robert Craft), A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (Robert Craft) that repay closer listening.

CD 22-23 Solo Vocal

A fascinating sequence of songs (with Lucy Shelton and John Constable) from Stravinsky s earliest period, many presented in the original voice and piano versions as well as later arrangements for voice and chamber ensemble (soloists like Ann Murray and John Shirley-Quirk under Pierre Boulez), ending with The Owl and the Pussy-Cat from 1966.

This section also includes what may be a world-premiere recording of the short Hommage à Nadia Boulanger, written for her 70th birthday in 1947, sung by two American singers from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Heide Stober and Ronnita Millar.

CD 24-25 Chamber Music

Beside original chamber works the great Octet and Septet, for example there are many popular works arranged from ballets that are regularly played in concert: the Suite italienne (in the cello and piano version, with Maisky and Argerich), The Soldier s Tale Concert Suite and the Divertimento from The Fairy s Kiss.

CD 26-27 Piano Music

Here, alongside Maurizio Pollini s unrivalled account of the Three Movements from Petrushka , we have excellent performances of neo-classical works like the Sonata and the Serenade in A by the French pianist Marie-Francoise Bucquet.

CD 28-29 Historical Recordings

The Violin Concerto with Dushkin and Stravinsky mentioned above, and The Soldier s Tale with Jean Cocteau as Narrator conducted by Igor Markevitch; plus two classic accounts of early ballets from Ansermet and Monteux.

CD 30 Bonus

Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim making sparks fly in the pian duet arrangement of The Rite of Spring.

Complete tracklist : The New Stravinsky Complete Edition