Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring [Alf:99-8557501]

The Rite of Spring.

Igor Stravinsky.

May whoever listens to this music never experience the insult to which it was subjected and of which I was the witness in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, Spring 1913,' wrote Stravinsky in 1968, of the premiere of his Rite of Spring. Written for a huge orchestra to a setting of scenes from pagan Russian, this elemental ballet with its vaulting, violent energy and assymetrical rhythms almost from beginning to end, has become a major landmark of 20th century music. Stravinsky's orchestral palette, different and distinctive in every work, is never more exotically colourful than in his one act opera The Nightingale, which is a virtual catalogue of avian imitations.



Masterwork.
Publisher's Category: CD Recording.
Format: CD.

Alf:99-8557501.
Distributed by Alfred Music Publishing.
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