Neoclassical Mask
Kate Molleson explores Stravinsky鈥檚 masks and myths, his love of rites and rituals. Today focusing on his neoclassicism 鈥 his turn to the past to make sense of the present.
Kate Molleson explores Igor Stravinsky鈥檚 multiple masks and myths. His love of rites and rituals. Today leaning into his neoclassicism 鈥 his turn to the past to make sense of the present.
After WW1 Stravinsky began to compose in a new way 鈥 a new style for a new age. Beginning with Pulcinella, refracting the music of Pergolesi. He described this period as a crisis, because like every modernist he was faced with a problem: how could art be meaningful after what they鈥檇 witnessed during the Great War? He described Pulcinella as a 鈥渂ackward look 鈥 first of many love affairs in that direction 鈥 but it was a look in the mirror, too.鈥 Through music that was fresh and fractured, arch and ironic, Stravinsky came up with a re-ordering of the past that was ultra-present.
Overture: Sinfonia, from Pulcinella Suite
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Suite Italienne
Amalie Stalheim, cello
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano
Sonata for Piano
Oxana Shevchenko, piano
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Nash Ensemble
Simon Rattle, conductor
Octet
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi, conductor
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Steven Osborne, piano
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Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite (Sinfonia)
Performer: Masaaki Suzuki. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.- BIS : BIS-2211.
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Igor Stravinsky
Suite Italienne
Performer: Amalie Stalheim. Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.- LAWO : LWC1260.
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Igor Stravinsky
Piano Sonata (excerpt)
Performer: Oxana Shevchenko.- DELPHIAN : DCD-34203.
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- CHANDOS : CHAN-6535.
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Igor Stravinsky
Octet
Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Mark Scatterday.- AVIE:AV2277.
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Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.- HYPERION : CDA-67870.
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