Stravinsky, Igor – Acentto – Viña del Mar

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.

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. . . .»

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)

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.

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.

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.

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))

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.

La consagración de la primavera para piano a 4 manos

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Compuesta para los Ballets Rusos de Sergei Diaghilev, La consagración de la primavera se estrenó en 1913 en el Théâtre des Champs-Elysées de París. La partitura armónicamente aventurera de Igor Stravinsky, junto con un escenario de sacrificio pagano y la coreografía poco convencional de Vaslav Nijinsky, despertó tanto oposición como apoyo, y el clímax del evento en un casi disturbio sigue siendo uno de los estrenos más notorios de la historia de la música.
Stravinsky creó una versión de la partitura orquestal para piano a cuatro manos, y fue en esta forma que la pieza se publicó por primera vez en 1913; la partitura completa no estuvo disponible impresa hasta 1921. Los efectos desastrosos de la Primera Guerra Mundial impregnaron todos los aspectos de la vida europea, y hubo pocas representaciones de la obra en los años posteriores a su composición, lo que convirtió este arreglo en la principal introducción a la obra. Reducida para fines de ensayo, esta reducción brinda una oportunidad práctica para que dos pianistas interpreten la obra completa, o para que los oyentes profundicen en la estructura detrás de la obra histórica de Stravinsky.

Reprint of the Edition Russe de Musique, Paris, (n.d.) edition.

Contenido:

Part I: A Kiss of the Earth

Introduction

The Augurs of Spring. Dances of the Young Girls

Ritual of Abduction

Spring Rounds

Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes

Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One

A Kiss of the Earth [The Oldest and Wisest One]

Dance of the Earth

Part II: The Great Sacrifice

Introduction

Mystic Circle of the Young Girls

Glorification of the Chosen One

Evocation of the Ancestors

Ritual Actions of the Ancestors

Sacrificial Dance [The Chosen One]

El pájaro de fuego

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The Firebird for Solo Piano: Complete Ballet

Composed in 1910, The Firebird was the first of many successful ballets that brought Igor Stravinsky international recognition. In collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russe, Stravinsky based his score on an old Russian fairytale. It tells a musical story of a prince’s kindness to a captive bird, his encounter with a bevy of princesses trapped in an enchanted garden, and his battle against an army of monsters. «You don’t even have to see the stage,» explained Leonard Bernstein in his Young People’s Concerts, «the music tells you everything. This music does honor to the art of ballet, and to music, and to Stravinsky himself, the greatest master our century has produced.»
This edition is Stravinsky’s own reduction for solo piano. Originally intended for Ballets Russe rehearsals, this arrangement has evolved into a popular and challenging part of the piano repertoire. It also offers an excellent way for listeners to follow this complex work and to fully appreciate its brilliance.

Reprint of the G. Schirmer, n.d. edition.