Stravinsky - Complete Edition | Deutsche Grammophon 4794650

Stravinsky - Complete Edition

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4794650

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 30

Release Date: 2nd October 2015

Contents

Works

Stravinsky, Igor

A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
Abraham and Isaac
Agon (ballet for twelve dancers)
Apollon musagete
Ave Maria
Babel
Berceuses du chat (4)
Berceuse
Canciones sacrae (3) (Gesualdo?)
Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
Cantata
Canticum Sacrum
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Circus Polka
Concertino for 12 instruments
Concertino for string quartet
Concerto for piano and wind instruments
Concerto for two pianos
Concerto in D major for strings, 'Basler'
Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Credo
Danses concertantes
Divertimento
Double Canon 'In memoriam Raoul Dufy'
Duet for Bassoons
Duo concertant
Easy Pieces (3) for piano duet
Easy Pieces (5) for piano duet
Ebony Concerto
Elegy for John F Kennedy
Elegy for solo viola
Epitaphium fur das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Furstenberg
Etudes (4), op.7
Etudes (4) for orchestra
Fanfare for a New Theatre
Feu d'artifice (Fireworks), op.4
Greeting Prelude
Histoires pour enfants (Tales for children) (3)
Hommage a Nadia Boulanger
How the mushrooms went to war
In memoriam Dylan Thomas
Instrumental miniatures (8)
Introitus: TS Eliot in memoriam
Japanese Lyrics (3)
Jeu de cartes (The Card Game)
La Marseillaise
Le Baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss)
Le Chant du Rossignol
Le Faune et la bergere (The Faun and the Shepherdess), op.2
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
Les Cing Doigts (The Five Fingers)
Les Noces (The Wedding)
Little Songs (3) 'Recollections of my Childhood'
Mass
Mavra
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Movements (5) for piano and orchestra
Norwegian Moods (4)
Octet for wind instruments
Ode
Oedipus rex
Orpheus
Pastorale
Pater noster
Persephone
Petit Ramusianum harmonique
Petrushka (1947 version)
Petrushka: 3 Movements for piano
Petrushka
Piano-Rag-Music
Piano Sonata in F sharp minor (1903-4)
Piano Sonata
Pieces (3) for solo clarinet
Pieces (3) for string quartet
Poemes (2) de Paul Verlaine
Poems (2) of Konstantin Balmont
Pour Picasso
Preludium for Jazz Band
Pribaoutki
Pulcinella
Ragtime
Renard (The Fox)
Requiem Canticles
Russian Peasant Songs (4)
Russian Songs (4) for voice, flute, harp and guitar
Sacred Songs (2) (Hugo Wolf)
Scenes de Ballet
Scherzo a la russe
Scherzo fantastique, op.3
Scherzo
Septet
Serenade in A major
Sonata for two pianos
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Songs (2) on Poems of Gorodetsky, op.6
Songs (3) from William Shakespeare
Songs (4) for voice, flute, harp & guitar (1953/4)
Souvenir d'une marche boche
Storm cloud
Suite italienne 'Pulcinella' (version for cello and piano)
Suite no.1
Suite no.2
Symphonies of wind instruments
Symphony in C major
Symphony in three movements
Symphony no.1 in E flat major, op.1
Symphony of Psalms
Tango
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)
The Flood: A musical play
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
The Rake's Progress
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) (piano duet)
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat): Concert Suite
The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat)
The dove descending breaks the air
Threni
Tilim-Bom: A story for children
Valse des fleurs
Valse pour les enfants
Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam'
Violin Concerto in D major
Zvezdolikiy (The King of the Stars/Le Roi des Etoiles)

Artists

Alain Damiens (clarinet)
Alfons Kontarsky (piano)
Aloys Kontarsky (piano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Anna Matyushina
Anne Fournet (narrator)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Anny Mory
Patricia Parker
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Charles Neidich (clarinet)
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass, narrator)
Deborah York (soprano)
Doris Stevenson (piano)
Florence Quivar
Gerard Causse (viola)
Halla Oddny Magnusdottir (piano)
Heide Stober (soprano)
Homero Francesch (piano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Isabelle Van Keulen (violin)
Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)
John Constable (piano, narrator)
John Gielgud (narrator)
John Mitchinson
John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
Joseph Cornwell (tenor)
Julie Moffat (soprano)
Katia Labeque (piano)
Marielle Labeque (piano)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Lucy Shelton (soprano)
Ludmilla Belobragina
Marcus Creed (baritone)
Marie-Francoise Bucquet (piano)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Martin Bruns (baritone)
Martin Robson (bass)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Michel Arrignon (clarinet)
Mikhail Svetlov (bass)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Nikolai Gutorovich
Nina Postavnicheva
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Paul Crossley (piano)
Paul Hudson
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Richard Morton (tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Ronnita Miller (mezzo-soprano)
Rosemary Hardy (soprano)
Ryland Davies (tenor)
Samuel Dushkin (violin)
Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone)
Susan Bickley (contralto)
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Tom Courtenay
Víkingur Olafsson (piano)
William Preucil
Jean Cocteau
Jean-Marie Fertey
Peter Ustinov
Anne Tonietti
Manoug Parikian
Joachim Gut
Ulysse Delecluse
Henry Helearts
Maurice Andre
Roland Schnorkh
Charles Peschie

Conductors

Pierre Boulez
Riccardo Chailly
Claudio Abbado
Gennady Rozhdhestvensky
Leonard Bernstein
James Levine
Oliver Knussen
Kent Nagano
John Eliot Gardiner
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Mikhail Pletnev
Robert Craft
Paul Sacher
Semyon Bychkov
Rafael Kubelik
Charles Mackerras
Dennis Russell Davies
Reinbert de Leeuw
Simon Preston
Igor Stravinsky
Ernest Ansermet
Pierre Monteux

Works

Stravinsky, Igor

A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
Abraham and Isaac
Agon (ballet for twelve dancers)
Apollon musagete
Ave Maria
Babel
Berceuses du chat (4)
Berceuse
Canciones sacrae (3) (Gesualdo?)
Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
Cantata
Canticum Sacrum
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Circus Polka
Concertino for 12 instruments
Concertino for string quartet
Concerto for piano and wind instruments
Concerto for two pianos
Concerto in D major for strings, 'Basler'
Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Credo
Danses concertantes
Divertimento
Double Canon 'In memoriam Raoul Dufy'
Duet for Bassoons
Duo concertant
Easy Pieces (3) for piano duet
Easy Pieces (5) for piano duet
Ebony Concerto
Elegy for John F Kennedy
Elegy for solo viola
Epitaphium fur das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Furstenberg
Etudes (4), op.7
Etudes (4) for orchestra
Fanfare for a New Theatre
Feu d'artifice (Fireworks), op.4
Greeting Prelude
Histoires pour enfants (Tales for children) (3)
Hommage a Nadia Boulanger
How the mushrooms went to war
In memoriam Dylan Thomas
Instrumental miniatures (8)
Introitus: TS Eliot in memoriam
Japanese Lyrics (3)
Jeu de cartes (The Card Game)
La Marseillaise
Le Baiser de la fee (The Fairy's Kiss)
Le Chant du Rossignol
Le Faune et la bergere (The Faun and the Shepherdess), op.2
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
Les Cing Doigts (The Five Fingers)
Les Noces (The Wedding)
Little Songs (3) 'Recollections of my Childhood'
Mass
Mavra
Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Movements (5) for piano and orchestra
Norwegian Moods (4)
Octet for wind instruments
Ode
Oedipus rex
Orpheus
Pastorale
Pater noster
Persephone
Petit Ramusianum harmonique
Petrushka (1947 version)
Petrushka: 3 Movements for piano
Petrushka
Piano-Rag-Music
Piano Sonata in F sharp minor (1903-4)
Piano Sonata
Pieces (3) for solo clarinet
Pieces (3) for string quartet
Poemes (2) de Paul Verlaine
Poems (2) of Konstantin Balmont
Pour Picasso
Preludium for Jazz Band
Pribaoutki
Pulcinella
Ragtime
Renard (The Fox)
Requiem Canticles
Russian Peasant Songs (4)
Russian Songs (4) for voice, flute, harp and guitar
Sacred Songs (2) (Hugo Wolf)
Scenes de Ballet
Scherzo a la russe
Scherzo fantastique, op.3
Scherzo
Septet
Serenade in A major
Sonata for two pianos
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Songs (2) on Poems of Gorodetsky, op.6
Songs (3) from William Shakespeare
Songs (4) for voice, flute, harp & guitar (1953/4)
Souvenir d'une marche boche
Storm cloud
Suite italienne 'Pulcinella' (version for cello and piano)
Suite no.1
Suite no.2
Symphonies of wind instruments
Symphony in C major
Symphony in three movements
Symphony no.1 in E flat major, op.1
Symphony of Psalms
Tango
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)
The Flood: A musical play
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
The Rake's Progress
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) (piano duet)
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat): Concert Suite
The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat)
The dove descending breaks the air
Threni
Tilim-Bom: A story for children
Valse des fleurs
Valse pour les enfants
Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam'
Violin Concerto in D major
Zvezdolikiy (The King of the Stars/Le Roi des Etoiles)

Artists

Alain Damiens (clarinet)
Alfons Kontarsky (piano)
Aloys Kontarsky (piano)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
Anna Matyushina
Anne Fournet (narrator)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)
Anny Mory
Patricia Parker
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Charles Neidich (clarinet)
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass, narrator)
Deborah York (soprano)
Doris Stevenson (piano)
Florence Quivar
Gerard Causse (viola)
Halla Oddny Magnusdottir (piano)
Heide Stober (soprano)
Homero Francesch (piano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Isabelle Van Keulen (violin)
Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)
John Constable (piano, narrator)
John Gielgud (narrator)
John Mitchinson
John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
Joseph Cornwell (tenor)
Julie Moffat (soprano)
Katia Labeque (piano)
Marielle Labeque (piano)
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Lucy Shelton (soprano)
Ludmilla Belobragina
Marcus Creed (baritone)
Marie-Francoise Bucquet (piano)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Martin Bruns (baritone)
Martin Robson (bass)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Michel Arrignon (clarinet)
Mikhail Svetlov (bass)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Nikolai Gutorovich
Nina Postavnicheva
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Paul Crossley (piano)
Paul Hudson
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Richard Morton (tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Ronnita Miller (mezzo-soprano)
Rosemary Hardy (soprano)
Ryland Davies (tenor)
Samuel Dushkin (violin)
Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone)
Susan Bickley (contralto)
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Tom Courtenay
Víkingur Olafsson (piano)
William Preucil
Jean Cocteau
Jean-Marie Fertey
Peter Ustinov
Anne Tonietti
Manoug Parikian
Joachim Gut
Ulysse Delecluse
Henry Helearts
Maurice Andre
Roland Schnorkh
Charles Peschie

Conductors

Pierre Boulez
Riccardo Chailly
Claudio Abbado
Gennady Rozhdhestvensky
Leonard Bernstein
James Levine
Oliver Knussen
Kent Nagano
John Eliot Gardiner
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Mikhail Pletnev
Robert Craft
Paul Sacher
Semyon Bychkov
Rafael Kubelik
Charles Mackerras
Dennis Russell Davies
Reinbert de Leeuw
Simon Preston
Igor Stravinsky
Ernest Ansermet
Pierre Monteux

About

The first edition of Stravinsky’s Complete works ever, comprising of stage works (ballets, operas, oratorio), orchestral, choral, solo vocal, chamber, piano and historical recordings.

Stravinsky’s music is performed by an array of great Stravinsky interpreters including Abbado, Ashkenazy, 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.

• Bonus CD: Argerich and Barenboim dazzle with 'The Rite of Spring'
• New recordings of four delightful miniatures (vocal / piano)
• 150-page booklet (English, French, German) with foreword by Roger Wright (former Head of A & R at Deutsche Grammophon) and new 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

Although Stravinsky’s music is especially associated with the Columbia label, where he recorded many of his works in the 1950s and early 1960s, Deutsche Grammophon has also made significant contributions to his discography, starting with Stravinsky himself, conducting his Violin Concerto for the label back in 1935, with Samuel Dushkin as soloist (see CD 28).

Both Ferenc Fricsay and Herbert von Karajan also recorded works by him, but it was Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein who contributed most in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s a concerted attempt, under Head of A & R Roger Wright, was made to produce a Stravinsky Edition, when Pierre Boulez returned to the label as an exclusive artist. Oliver Knussen also made a significant contribution at that time.

Economic factors brought this project to an end – but the Edition was well within reach, and we decided that, with the help of licensing from several labels, we could bring a Complete Edition about. There’s no anniversary, he’s still in copyright, but the importance of his music, its sheer power and variety, made the completion of the project a worthy proposal. Stravinsky – “the last of his kind” in Richard Taruskin’s telling phrase – should be a feature of everyone’s musical landscape, and the presentation of a Complete Edition brings ample rewards.

Contents:
CD 1–12 Stage Works
Here you get all the famous ballets, from The 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 1
- The Firebird
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez

CD 2
- Petrushka
- The Rite of Spring

The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez

CD 3
- Le Rossignol
- Le Chant du rossignol

BBC Symphony Orchestra / The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez

CD 4
- Renard
Philip Langridge (tenor) / Neil Jenkins (tenor)
London Sinfonietta / Riccardo Chailly
- The Soldier’s Tale
John Gielgud (narrator), Tom Courtenay, Ron Moody / Boston Chamber Players

CD 5
- Pulcinella
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) / Ryland Davies (tenor) / John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
- Mavra
Ludmilla Belobragina, Nina Postavnicheva, Anna Matyushina, Nikolai Gutorovich
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gennady Rozhdhestvensky

CD 6
- Les Noces
Anny Mory, Patricia Parker, John Mitchinson, Paul Hudson, Martha Argerich (piano), Krystian Zimerman (piano), Cyprien Katsaris (piano), Homero Francesch (piano)
English Bach Festival Chorus and Percussion Ensemble / Leonard Bernstein
- Oedipus rex
Philip Langridge (tenor), Florence Quivar
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / James Levine

CD 7
- Apollon musagète
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly
- The Fairy’s Kiss
The Cleveland Orchestra / Oliver Knussen

CD 8
- Persephone
Anne Fournet (narrator), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Kent Nagano

CD 9
- Jeu de cartes
London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
- Scènes de ballet
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein
- Orpheus
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

CD 10–11
- The Rake’s Progress
Bryn Terfel (baritone), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Deborah York (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir / London Symphony Orchestra / John Eliot Gardiner

CD 12
- Agon
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Vladimir Ashkenazy
- The Flood
David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone), Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone)
London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen

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 13
- Symphony no.1
Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev
- Scherzo fantastique
The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
- Feux d’artifice
- 4 Studies for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
- Song of the Volga Boatmen
Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft
- Ragtime for 11 Instruments
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
- Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez

CD 14
- Suite no.1
- Suite no.2

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Concerto for piano and winds
- Capriccio for piano and orchestra

Olli Mustonen (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Paul Sacher

CD 15
- Divertimento
Orchestra de Paris / Semyon Bychkov
- Praeludium
- Dumbarton Oaks

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Symphony in C
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein

CD 16
- Danses concertantes
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Circus Polka for a young elephant
Berliner Philharmoniker / Rafael Kubelik
- 4 Norwegian Moods
The Cleveland Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly
- Ode
The Cleveland Orchestra / Oliver Knussen
- Scherzo à la russe
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Symphony in 3 Movements
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein

CD 17
- Ebony Concerto
Michel Arrignon (clarinet), Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez
- Concerto in D
- Concertino for 12 Instruments
- Tango

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Greeting Prelude: for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Charles Mackerras
- Movements for piano and orchestra
Olli Mustonen (piano), Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchestra, Berlin / Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester / Dennis Russell Davies
- 8 Instrumental Miniatures
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Variations (Aldous Huxley in memoriam)
London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen
- Canon on a Russian Popular Tune
Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev

CD 18
- Suite: The Firebird (1945)
Russian National Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev
- Petrushka (1947)
Boris Berman (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Leonard Bernstein


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 19
- Le roi des étoiles (Zvezdolikiy)
Cleveland [Male] Chorus & Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
- Four Russian Peasant Songs (Podblijudnije)
- Otche nash (Pater Noster)
Netherlands Chamber Choir / Reinbert de Leeuw
- Symphony of Psalms
The Monteverdi Choir / London Symphony Orchestra / John Eliot Gardiner
- Simvol veri (Credo)
- Bogoroditse devo reduysya

Netherlands Chamber Choir / Reinbert De Leeuw
- Babel Cantata for Narrator, Male Chorus and Orchestra
David Wilson-Johnson (narrator)
The Simon Joly Male Chorus / The Philharmonia / Robert Craft
- Mass for mixed chorus and double wind quintet
Trinity Boys’ Choir / English Bach Festival Chorus
Members of the English Bach Festival Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein

CD 20
- Cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus, and chamber ensemble
Rosemary Hardy (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Netherlands Chamber Choir / Schönberg Ensemble / Reinbert De Leeuw
- Canticum sacrum for tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra
Richard Morton (tenor), Marcus Creed (baritone)
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford / Philip Jones Ensemble / Simon Preston
- Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae
Julie Moffat (soprano), Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Joseph Cornwell (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Martin Robson (bass)
The Simon Joly Chorale / The Philharmonia / Robert Craft

CD 21
- Tres sacrae cantiones (Gesualdo arr. Stravinsky)
Netherlands Chamber Choir / Reinbert De Leeuw
- A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor)
The Gregg Smith Singers / The Philharmonia / Robert Craft
- Anthem: 'The dove descending breaks the air' for mixed chorus
- Introitus: T S Eliot in memoriam (Requiem aeternam)

Netherland Chamber Choir / Reinbert De Leeuw
- Requiem Canticles
Susan Bickley (contralto), David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone)
New London Chamber Choir / London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen

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 22
1. Storm-Cloud (1902)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
2. How the Mushrooms Went to War (1904)
Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Doris Stevenson (piano)
3–5. Faun and Shepherdess op.2 (1906)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), The Cleveland Orchestra / Oliver Knussen
6–8. Three Little Songs 'Recollections of my Childhood'
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
9. Pastorale (1907)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
10–11. Two Songs on Poems of Gorodetsky op.6
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
12–13. Two Poems by Paul Verlaine op.9
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
14–15. Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont (1911)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
16–18. Three Japanese Lyrics
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
19–22. Pribaoutki
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
23–26. Cat’s Cradle Songs (Berceuses du chat)
Ann Murray(mezzo-soprano)
Ensemble Intercontemporain (3 clarinets) / Pierre Boulez
27–29. Three Children’s Tales
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano, narrator)
30. Berceuse (1917)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (baritone)

CD 23
1–4. Four Russian Songs
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
5. Song of Parasha (from Mavra)
Phyllis Bryn- Julson (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
6. Tilim-Bom
Phyllis Bryn-Julson / Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
7. Pastorale (1907 arr.1923)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez
8–10. Three Little Songs 'Recollections of my Childhood'
 Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
11. Petit Ramusianum harmonique (Hommage à C-F-Ramuz)
Martin Bruns (baritone)
12. Hommage à Nadia Boulanger – NEW RECORDING ('Diex, com leur avient' [Petit canon pour la fete de Nadia Boulanger])
Heide Stober (soprano), Ronnita Miller (mezzo-soprano)
13–15. Three Songs from William Shakespeare (1953)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
16–19. Four Songs (1953–1954)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
20–21. Two Poems of Konstantin Balmont
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
22. In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Do not go gentle into that good night)
Robert Tear (tenor), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
23–25. Abraham and Isaac (1962 – 63)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone), London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen
26. Elegy for J.F.K. (1964)
John Shirley-Quirk, baritone / Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez
27. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1966)
Lucy Shelton (soprano), John Constable (piano)
28–29. 2 Sacred Songs (Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch)
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez


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. Not to forget quirky items like the Duet for two bassoons, the 24-second Pour Pablo Picasso for solo clarinet (written down on a postcard) and the late Fanfare for a New Theatre for two trumpets.

CD 24
- Three Pieces for string quartet
Members of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- 4 Duet (Lied ohne Name) for 2 bassoons
Members of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Pour Pablo Picasso for solo clarinet
Charles Neidich (clarinet)
- Three pieces for clarinet
Alain Damiens (clarinet)
- The Soldier’s Tale: Concert Suite
William Preucil, Members of the Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez
-  La Marseillaise
Isabelle van Keulen
- Concertino, for string quartet
Members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain / Pierre Boulez
- Octet for wind instruments
Members of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

CD 25
- Duo concertant
Isabelle Van Keulen (violin), Olli Mustonen (piano)
- Suite italienne cello & piano, ex Pulcinella
Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
- Pastorale
- Divertimento: arr. of Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss, for violin & piano
Isabelle Van Keulen (violin), Olli Mustonen (piano)
- Elegie, for viola solo
Gérard Causse (viola)
- Septet
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
- Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp
Ensemble Intercontemporian / Pierre Boulez
- Double Canon for string quartet (Raoul Dufy in memoriam)
Ensemble Intercontemporian / Pierre Boulez
- Fanfare for a new theatre, for two trumpets
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

CD 26–27 Piano Music
The piano was essential to Stravinsky’s composition method, and he himself composed works to play in concerts. 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; the Labèque sisters and the Kontarsky brothers cover the piano duets and two-piano works admirably. AND there are three more new recordings, wonderfully rendered by the young Icelandic pianist Vikingur Olaffson – not quite world premières but very rare: Scherzo in G minor of 1902, the Valse des fleurs (piano duet) and the Souvenir d’une marche boche (1915), whose irony is wonderfully captured by the artist.

CD 26
- Scherzo – NEW RECORDING
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
- Sonata in F sharp minor
Paul Crossley (piano)
- Four Studies op.7
Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano)
- Valse des fleurs: piano duet – NEW RECORDING
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Halla Oddný Magnúsdóttir (piano)
- Three Easy Pieces, 4 hands
Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano)
- Souvenir d’une marche boche – NEW RECORDING
Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)
- Five Easy Pieces, 4 hands
Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano)
- Valse pour les enfants
- Ragtime
- Piano-Rag-Music
- Les cinq doigts, 8 Easy Pieces

Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano)

CD 27
- 3 Movements from 'Petrushka'
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- Piano Sonata
- Serenade in A

Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano)
- Concerto for 2 pianos
Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (piano)
- Tango (1940)
- Circus Polka

Marie-Françoise Bucquet (piano)
- Sonata for 2 pianos
Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (piano)

CD 28–29 Historical Recordings
In the vaults of DG and Decca/Philips there lie some wonderful gems from the past, of considerable historical value and significance: 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, conductors intimately associated with Stravinsky during his lifetime.

CD 28
- Violin Concerto in D
Samuel Dushkin (violin), Orchestra Lamoureux / Igor Stravinsky (1935)

- Histoire du soldat
Jean Cocteau, Jean-Marie Fertey, Peter Ustinov, Anne Tonietti, Manoug Parikian, Joachim Gut, Ulysse Delécluse, Henry Helearts, Maurice André, Roland Schnorkh, Charles Peschie / Igor Markevitch (1962)

CD 29
- Petrushka
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet (1949)
- The Rite of Spring
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Pierre Monteux (1957)

CD 30 Bonus
Finally, we couldn’t resist including 2014’s sensation: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim making sparks fly in the piano duet arrangement of The Rite of Spring.

- The Rite of Spring (version for piano duet)
Martha Argerich (piano) / Daniel Barenboim (piano)

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