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Composer(s): Stravinsky, Igor
Conductor(s): Craft, Robert
Orchestra(s): Philharmonia Orchestra
Label: Naxos
Genre: Ballet
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 6.110081
Barcode: 747313108169
Release Date: 03/2005
STRAVINSKY: Firebird (The) / Petrushka
This is the first recording of the Complete Original Version of Stravinsky’s most popular work, The Firebird. Among the many differences between the present recording and its predecessors is the restoration of two long, valveless trumpets on stage, each playing a single note standing out above the entire orchestra. This is a thrilling effect in all likelihood heard for the first time since 1910 on this recording. Compared to the lush orchestra of The Firebird, the sonorities of Petrushka may seem brittle but harmonically, rhythmically, and instrumentally the work is innovative on every page, a drama of great power and originality.
Tracklist
Stravinsky, Igor
|  | 1 | Introduction | 02:34 |
| | 2 | Scene I: Night. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden | 01:40 |
| | 3 | Scene I: The Firebird enters, pursued by Ivan Tsarevich | 02:16 |
| | 4 | Scene I: The Firebird's Dance | 01:20 |
| | 5 | Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird | 00:55 |
| | 6 | Scene I: The Firebird begs to be released | 05:27 |
| | 7 | Scene I: Entrance of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses | 02:17 |
| | 8 | Scene I: The Princesses play with the golden apples (Scherzo) | 02:31 |
| | 9 | Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich appears | 00:59 |
| | 10 | Scene I: The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance) | 04:37 |
| | 11 | Scene I: Daybreak | 01:28 |
| | 12 | Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich, entering Kastchei's palace... | 01:35 |
| | 13 | Scene I: The entrance of Kastchei the Immortal | 01:08 |
| | 14 | Scene I: Dialogue between Kastchei and Ivan Tsarevich | 01:03 |
| | 15 | Scene I: The Princesses plead for mercy | 01:04 |
| | 16 | Scene I: The Firebird enters | 00:36 |
| | 17 | Scene I: Dance of Kastchei's retinue under the Firebird's magic spell | 00:49 |
| | 18 | Scene I: Infernal Dane of Kastchei and his subjects under the Firebird's magic spell | 04:38 |
| | 19 | Scene I: The Firebird's Lullaby | 02:29 |
| | 20 | Scene I: Kastchei's awakens | 01:09 |
| | 21 | Scene I: Kastchei's death | 01:20 |
| | 22 | Scene II: Kastchei's spell is broken, his palace disappears, and the Petrified Knights return to life. General Thanksgiving.... | 02:55 |
| | 23 | First Tableau: The Shrove-Tide Fair | 05:12 |
| | 24 | First Tableau: The Mountebank | 01:49 |
| | 25 | First Tableau: Russian Dance | 02:42 |
| | 26 | Second Tableau: In Petrushka's Cell (Impetuoso) | 04:24 |
| | 27 | Third Tableau: The Blackamoor | 02:26 |
| | 28 | Third Tableau: The Ballerina | 00:45 |
| | 29 | Third Tableau: Valse - Ballerina and Blackamoor (Lento cantabile) | 03:12 |
| | 30 | Fourth Tableau: The Shrove-Tide Fair | 01:09 |
| | 31 | Fourth Tableau: The Dance of the Wet-Nurses | 02:33 |
| | 32 | Fourth Tableau: Peasant with Bear | 01:23 |
| | 33 | Fourth Tableau: Gypsies and a Rake Vendor | 01:10 |
| | 34 | Fourth Tableau: Dance of the Coachmen | 02:02 |
| | 35 | Fourth Tableau: Masqueraders | 01:35 |
| | 36 | Fourth Tableau: The Scuffle (Blackmoor and Petrushka) | 00:51 |
| | 37 | Fourth Tableau: Death of Petrushka | 00:44 |
| | 38 | Fourth Tableau: Police and the Juggler | 01:13 |
| | 39 | Fourth Tableau: Vociferation of Petrushka's Ghost | 00:51 |
Total Playing Time: 01:18:51