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Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919) - Ravel: Bolero

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Catalogue numberAP300D
Release date2023-01-20
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

In 1914 Stravinsky was more than ever taken up by his interest in pagan Russia and its folk rituals. He worked on the composition of Les Noces, intended for the Ballets Russes, until 1923.

These ‘choreographed scenes with music and voices’ represent, in four tableaux, the Russian folk wedding ritual. Sober, stylised, razor-sharp, Stravinsky’s music combines rhythmic brutality with an incantatory force, evoking both the timelessness and the inexorability of that ritual.

There were several attempts at different instrumentations of the work. Here Mathieu Romano, the Ensemble Aedes and Les Siècles present the world premiere recording of the full 1919 version (completed in 2007 by Theo Verbey), written for an ensemble of percussion instruments, two Hungarian cymbaloms, a harmonium, a pianola, and voices.

The same unusual instrumentation, clear, incisive, precise, is used for Robin Melchior’s arrangement of Ravel’s Boléro: an unexpected and amazing, suave, and totally successful.
 
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01 Ne vesiolaïa... (Russian Folk Song) 01:32 $ 0.21 USD
 
  Composer: Igor Stravinsky
  Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Premier tableau
02 Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Premier tableau: La tresse (Chez la mariée)
05:00 $ 0.68 USD
 
 
  Composer: Igor Stravinsky
  Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Deuxième tableau
03 Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Deuxième tableau: Chez le marié
05:28 $ 0.74 USD
 
 
  Composer: Igor Stravinsky
  Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Troisième tableau
04 Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 1 Troisième tableau: Le départ de la mariée
02:56 $ 0.40 USD
 
 
  Composer: Igor Stravinsky
  Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 2 Quatrième tableau
05 Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey),
Partie 2 Quatrième tableau: Le repas de noces
10:13 $ 1.38 USD
 
06 Bolero, M. 81 (Arr. for Solo Voices, Choir, Cymbaloms,
Harmonium, Pianola and Percussion by Robin Melchior)
15:41 $ 2.12 USD
  Album total 40:50
ArtistAmélie Raison
Ensemble Aedes
Les Siècles
Martial Pauliat
Mathieu Romano
Pauline Leroy
Renaud Delaigue
ComposerIgor Stravinsky
Maurice Ravel
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