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Les Noces re-imagined: New Movement Collective presents a new choreographic version of Stravinsky's ballet
[…] four pianos, thus creating a unique sound-world, though during the last 50 years there have been various performances of completions of the various torsos left behind by Stravinsky, including a version for large orchestra and one for cimbaloms and pianola.For the premiere in 1923, choreography was by Nijinsky's sister, Bronislava and like Stravinsky changing his sound-world, Nijinska's choreography embodied a very different world to her brother's ballets. Les Noces was her third Stravinsky ballet following Mavra and Renard. In 1928, Nijinska was the choreographer for Ida Rubenstein's company in Paris when a young English dancer, Frederick Ashton, joined the company, was mentored by Nijinska and danced some of her ballets. Cut to 1960s London and Ashton became director of the Royal Ballet in 1963, having previously been the company's resident choreographer. He invited Nijinska to stage her ballets at the Royal Ballet, the result was a pair of historically important stagings, Les Biches (to […]
2022-02-11 07:32:42
[…] work. On the disc his song cycles are interleaved with the French ones in a way that works perhaps because there was something a little traditional about Páleníček's style, though the fact that after the war he lived in Czechoslovakia under Communist domination would explain an element of conservatism (and according to Wikipedia he became a member of the Communist Party). So we being with Ravel's Histoires Naturelles from 1907, his settings of Jules Renard where the setting of prose brings the text to the fore. Lukáš Zeman has a lovely, resonant, flexible baritone and throughout the disc I was impressed with the way he was able to phrase music and sing a fine, fluid line. In the Ravel, he is finely flexible in his approach to the text. His French is good, but there were moments in these songs where he seemed more concerned with sound than with […]
2021-04-26 13:55:04
Jean de Castro, 2021
[…] half a century earlier, by the mutinous soldiers of his father, Charles V). While in Antwerp, Castro set to music several sonnets by the famous French poet of the time, Pierre Ronsard. One of them was Bon jour mon Coeur, which Orlando di Lasso also used for a chanson. We don’t have access to Castro’s rendition, but here is the one by Lasso. On the other hand, the picture, above, by a French painter Simon Renard de St. André is a testimony to the popularity of Castro’s music: the notes are from his version of Bon jour mon Coeur. In 1576 Castro fled to Germany and then moved to France. The ten years of his wandering are poorly documented, but in 1586 he returned to Antwerp, where he attended the wedding of Duke Johann Wilhelm de Jülich in Düsseldorf, to whom he dedicated a book of music. This was an […]
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2021-03-05 15:30:00
Igor Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat), Suite – Musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (HD 4K)
The theme could not be more relevant when Stravinsky wrote the music for the performance The Soldier's Tale in 1917-1918 – the world was in flaming war. Like many artists in Europe, Stravinsky had fled to neutral Switzerland, where he met the author Charles F. Ramuz. His story of the soldier who sold his violin to the devil for glory and money was also a reflection of the artists' terms. Freedom or success? Stravinsky was perhaps proof that both were possible. The music, influenced by jazz and with elements such as ragtime and tango, does very well on its own. This is shown by Santtu-Matias Rouvali and musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in the suite of vivid movements Stravinsky compiled from the original music. Source: gso.se/en/ ✻ Stravinsky had first met the Swiss writer, Charles F. Ramuz in 1915 and worked with him on the French version of Renard and Les Noces […]
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