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Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Petrushka

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212019528
Catnr: SIGCD 195
Release date: 01 June 2010
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212019528
Catalogue number
SIGCD 195
Release date
01 June 2010
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

Groots ballet van Stravinsky door BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Dit album is een onderdeel van een serie bestaande uit de drie grote balletten van Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (de lentewijding), L’Oiseau de Feu (de vuurvogel) en Petrushka, dat hier wordt uitgevoerd door het BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Petrushka was een groot succes vanaf de eerste uitvoering in Parijs in 1911 en wordt nog steeds gezien als één van de grootste prestaties zowel van de Ballet Russes als het gehele balletrepertoire.

Het verhaal speelt zich af in St. Petersburg tijdens een traditioneel feest, waar een entertainer op een gegeven moment tevoorschijn komt en drie poppen laat zien. Eén van die poppen is Petrushka, die verliefd wordt op een ballerina. Hij heeft echter concurrentie van Blackamoor, een andere pop. Deze weet Petruska te doden maar zijn geest leeft alsnog voort.

Naast het bekende ballet bevat het album ook het ballet Kikimora, dat in hetzelfde jaar werd gecomponeerd als L’Oiseau de Feu van Stravinksy, The Enchanted Lake en Baba Yaga van Anatoly Liadov.

Het BBC National Orchestra of Wales is één van de zes symfonieorkesten van de BBC sinds zijn eerste optreden in 1928. Het orkest werkt nauw samen met radio en tv-programmamakers en nam soundtracks op voor series als Doctor Who. Het treedt ook jaarlijks op tijdens de BBC Night of the Proms.

Artist(s)

Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer is Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and also, from April 2008, Chief Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic. From 2001-2006 he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra. Fischer studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and began his musical career as Principal Flute in Hamburg and at the Zurich Opera, where he studied scores with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and was profoundly influenced by him. His conducting career began in his 30’s when he replaced an ailing colleague, subsequently directing his first few concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe where he was Principal Flute under Claudio Abbado, who encouraged and inspired him in his new-found talent for conducting. Spending his apprentice years in Holland, Thierry Fischer...
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Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer is Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and also, from April 2008, Chief Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic. From 2001-2006 he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra.
Fischer studied flute with Aurèle Nicolet and began his musical career as Principal Flute in Hamburg and at the Zurich Opera, where he studied scores with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and was profoundly influenced by him. His conducting career began in his 30’s when he replaced an ailing colleague, subsequently directing his first few concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe where he was Principal Flute under Claudio Abbado, who encouraged and inspired him in his new-found talent for conducting. Spending his apprentice years in Holland, Thierry Fischer has since appeared with many leading orchestras in the UK and Europe.
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Composer(s)

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.   Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His 'Russian phase' which continued with works such as Renard, The Soldier's Tale and Les Noces, was followed...
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His "Russian phase" which continued with works such as Renard, The Soldier's Tale and Les Noces, was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassical music. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony), drawing on earlier styles, especially from the 18th century. This style was often referred to as Neoclassicism. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form, and of instrumentation.

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