STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex, Les Noces

Craft, Robert;
Bickley, Susan;
Greenan, Andrew;
Lane, Jennifer;
Cornwell, Joseph;
Simon Joly Chorale;
Hill, Martyn;
Wilson-Johnson, David;
Ewing, Alan;
Fox, Edward;
International Piano Quartet;
Simon Joly Male Chorus;
Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble;
Wells, Alison

8.557499

Oedipus Rex, based on Sophocles' tragedy, is an established twentieth-century classic. Employing a speaker, male chorus and orchestra, it represents Stravinsky's 1920s neo-classicism at its peak. Les Noces, an amalgam of ballet and dance cantata in four scenes for solo voices, chorus, four pianos and seventeen percussion instruments, depicts a Russian peasant wedding. One of only two theatrical works by Stravinsky to combine music with a text in his mother tongue, Les Noces is also his most Russian work, in which ritual, symbol and meaning on every level are part of his direct cultural heredity.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

08-11-2004

747313249923

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