Igor Stravinsky Edition - Box Set 23CDs

Label : Warner

Format : Flac (image + cue)

Cover : Yes

Igor Stravinsky Edition: An authoritative and representative survey of Stravinsky's music in superlative interpretations by an array of outstanding musicians, including some of today's leading Erato / Warner Classics artists and Stravinsky himself as historical bonuses

23CDs, a beautiful boxset with wallets illustrated with paintings by Kandinsky

The recordings span nearly a century of history, from 2019 back as far as 1928.

The edition comprises all major works and less frequently heard smaller works. Certain works appear in both their original orchestral versions and in transcriptions, by strravinsky himself and by other musicians e.g. for solo piano, piano duo, piano and violin, accordion duo.

3CDs are devoted to historical recordings, dating from the late 1920s and 1930s, with Stravinsky appearing as conductor and as pianist.

The performers in the set include: Conductors: Ernest Ansermet, Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Mariss Jansons, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Franz Welser-Möst

Pianists: Martha Argerich, Michel Béroff, Nelson Freire, Marcelle Meyer, Beatrice Rana, Fazil Say, Lars Vogt

Instrumentalists: Alban Berg Quartet, Gidon Kremer, Sabine Meyer, Truls Mørk, Itzhak Perlman, Maxim Vengerov

Singers: Grace Bumbry, Natalie Dessay, Jerry Hadley, Marjana Lipovsek, Samuel Ramey, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, John Tomlinson, Dawn Upshaw

Complete tracklist : Igor Stravinsky Edition