Stravinsky, Ígor – Acentto – Viña del Mar

Arensky – 6 Pieces Enfantines, Op. 34. Stravinsky – 3 Easy Pieces

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Rachmaninov’s composition teacher, famed Russian composer Anton Arensky, wrote these lovely and simple piano duets which run the gamut of emotion in true Russian Romantic style. Stravinsky’s wonderful dances round out this charming album with a tongue-in-cheek pair of parts, one extremely easy, the other a dizzying rhythmic joke! Stravinsky loved these three pieces so much that he later orchestrated them as Nos. 1-3 of his Suite No. 2 for small orchestra. A must-have for the less advanced student who wants to play luscious Russian Romantic music!Includes complete printed music score with both primo and secondo piano parts, and a compact disc featuring the duets in two formats: split-channel stereo with secondo part on the left channel, primo on the right, so you can play either part. and then again with just the secondo part in stereo so you can perform the primo part alongside.Performed by Sondra Bianca, pianoAccompaniment: Harriet Wingreen, piano 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 1: Fairy Tale (in three movements) Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 2: Cuckoo Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 3: Tears Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 4: Waltz Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 5: Cradle Song Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky 6 Pieces Enfantines, op. 34, no. 6: Fugue on a Russian Theme Performed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky Three Easy Pieces: 1. March Performed by Igor Stravinsky Three Easy Pieces: 2. Valse Performed by Igor Stravinsky Three Easy Pieces: 3. Polka Performed by Igor Stravinsky

El pájaro de fuego (Versión original 1910)

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Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballets Russes, this dazzling piece brought overnight success to its composer. Based on a series of Russian fairy tales, Stravinsky’s modern masterpiece is greatly admired for its brilliant orchestration and harmony, and it remains as popular today as at its 1910 premiere.

Obras para cuarteto de cuerdas

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Works for String Quartet

This impressive volume brings together three major 20th-century chamber works: Berg’s String Quartet No. 1, Op. 3; Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet; and Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet.
Heavily influenced by the works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg’s String Quartet No. 1 brought its composer into the musical vanguard. Schoenberg declared himself astonished by the «fullness and unconstraint of its musical language, the strength and sureness of its presentation, its careful working and significant originality.»
Stravinsky recognized his Three Pieces for String Quartet as marking an important change in his art, and this turning point can be regarded as an experiment in new stylistic possibilities. The first piece features a mechanical repetition of a musical figure; the second is highly atonal; and the final piece introduces the austere style to which the composer later returned.
Like Berg, Webern was a student of Schoenberg, and the Five Movements for String Quartet both reflects the master’s teachings and extends beyond them. Departing from traditional thematic composition and form, these gemlike miniatures anticipate the development of the twelve-tone method.

Reprinted from authoritative sources.

Contenido:

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Streichquartett (String Quartet)Op. 3

I. Langsam

II. Mäßige Viertel

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Trois piéces pour quatuor à cordes (Three Pieces for String Quartet)

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett (Five Pieces for String Quartet)Op. 5

I. Heftig bewegt, Tempo I

II. Sehr langsam

III. Sehr bewegt

IV. Sehr langsam

V. In zarter Bewegung

La consagración de la primavera

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Part I: Adoration of the Earth
Introduction
The Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls) (Les augures printaniers, Danses des adolescentes)
The Mock Abduction (Jeu du rapt)
Spring Round Dance (Rondes printanires)
Games of the Rival Clans (Jeu des cites rivales)
Procession of the Wise Elder (Cortge du sage)
Adoration of the Earth (The Wise One) (Adoration de la Terre, Le sage) Dance of the Earth (Danse de la terre)
Part II: The Sacrifice (Le Sacrifice)
Introduction
Mystical Circles of the Young Girls (Cercles mysterieux des adolescentes)
Glorification of the Chosen Victim (Glorification de l’Elue)
The Summoning of the Ancients (Evocation des ancetres)
Ritual Dance of the Ancients (Action rituelle des ancetres)
Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen Victim) (Danse sacrale (l’Elue))

Petrushka

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Stravinsky’s score for the ballet Petrushka, commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics. It followed by a year the great success of his score for The Firebird, also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky’s reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers.
The ballet had begun in Stravinsky’s mind as a «picture of a puppet suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios.» Soon Diaghilev had convinced the young composer to turn the work into a ballet score. Benois was chosen to be his collaborator in the libretto, Fokine and Nijinsky became involved, and the bizarre tale of three dancing puppets — Petrushka (a folk character in Russian lore), the Ballerina, and the Moor, brought to life in a tragic tale of love — would soon become one of the most acclaimed and performed of ballet masterpieces.
Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, alternately poignant and splendidly imposing, the score of Petrushka continues to be a popular subject for the study of tonal language and orchestration. This edition is an unabridged republication of the original edition published in 1912 by Edition Russe de Musique in Berlin. Printed on fine paper, sturdily bound, yet remarkably inexpensive, it offers musical scholars, musical performers, and music lovers a lifetime of pleasurable study and enjoyment of one of the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the twentieth century.

Reprint of the Edition Russe de Musique, Berlin, 1912 edition.

Petrushka

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Brilliantly orchestrated, filled with Russian folksong as well as new and striking harmonies, this score is one the most popular and acclaimed musical works of the 20th century. General Note. Stage Directions. Instrumentation. All materials in English and French, newly translated for this edition.

Les noces

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A sort of choreographic cantata depicting Russian peasant nuptials, Les Noces («The Wedding») was produced by Diaghilev in Paris in 1923. This outstandingly original work broke new musical ground with its compact, concise style, using unusual combinations of instruments with vocal accompaniment rather than a large orchestra. Reproduced from an authoritative score, this handsome, inexpensive volume incorporates new lists of contents and instrumentation; a glossary and preface (with illustrations); a Note on the Translation and Translation of the French Text.

Reprint of an authoritative edition.

La consagración de la primavera

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Partitura general.

Considered Stravinsky’s most sensational achievement, The Rite of Spring is a masterpiece that is clearly planned and perfectly controlled, yet leaps past practically every law or canon governing rhythm, harmony and orchestration. Reproduction of the Izdatel’stvo Muzyka, Moscow edition, 1965.

Introduction (A Kiss of the Earth)
The Augurs of Spring
Ritual of Abduction
Spring Rounds
Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes
Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One [the Sage]
The Kiss of the Earth
The Dancing Out of the Earth
Introduction (The Exalted Sacrifice)
Mystic Circle of the Young Girls
The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One
Evocation of the Ancestors
Ritual Action of the Ancestors
Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

La consagración de la primavera

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With this brilliant and uncompromising work, the most famous musical work of the 20th century, Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Says Grove’s: «every canon of harmony seems to have been violated . . . yet with all its deliberate crudity and violence the ‘Rite’ is a clearly planned and perfectly controlled and coordinated piece of music [which] has for long been accepted universally as a masterpiece and is in the repertory of every large symphony orchestra. . . .»

El pájaro de fuego, versión original 1910

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In 1910, following his successful orchestration of selections for the ballet Les Sylphides, the innovative young composer Igor Stravinsky was commissioned by the director of the Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev, to create a completely new score. The dazzling result was The Firebird, a work which brought overnight success to its creator and distinguished him as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. Based on Russian fairy tales, the piece, according to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, has «all the coloring of a Russian child’s picture book…brilliant orchestration, glowing color…an extraordinary evocative power which literally enchants the listener.»
Today, The Firebird is as popular and enthusiastically received as it was following its triumphant premiere in Paris more than a century ago. Greatly admired for its orchestrations and harmony, the composition is widely studied by practicing musicians and music students.
Now the complete score of this modern masterpiece is available in this handsome, authoritative, and inexpensive edition, which includes a list of instruments and English translations of the stage directions.

Reprint of the Gosudarstvennoe Muzykal’noe Izdatel’stvo, Moscow, 1964 edition.