Composer of the Week - Igor Stravinsky - 1. Recollections of a Childhood | Текст песни

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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Episode 1 of 5: Recollections of a Childhood

Donald Macleod explores Stravinsky's childhood musical experiences, growing up in late-19th century St Petersburg.

Igor Stravinsky was one of the most brilliant, daring and influential musical thinkers of the early 20th century - a composer who forged new musical horizons and scandalised high society. But it wasn't always that way... Stravinsky was, in fact, a relatively late starter - no musical prodigy here - and his earliest musical works show no hint of the coruscating modernism that was to make him the most famous composer in the world. Instead, we find charming, witty and delightful music in the great Russian tradition of Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Mussorgsky - compositions often sadly overlooked in the great swirl of publicity that surrounded his trio of great ballets, The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite Of Spring. This week, Donald Macleod explores the world of "Young Igor", presenting a rare hearing of Stravinsky's fine early compositions and a selection of rarities as we follow the composer's development up to the end of the First World War. He also presents two rare and unusual versions of Stravinsky's iconic ballets: the Firebird in its original 1910 ballet suite, and an extraordinary - and acclaimed - new arrangement of Petrushka by the Mythos accordion duo.

Donald Macleod begins the week with Stravinsky's own memories of childhood - a trio of songs after children's rhymes - as well piano pieces recalling his own attempts to 'find' music at the keyboard as a boy. He explores the world of old St Petersburg - and the influence of Tchaikovsky on the young composer - and fast-forwards to Stravinsky's very final work, written at the age of 83, which hauntingly looks back at his then-distant youth.

00:00
Igor Stravinsky
3 Little songs (Recollections of my childhood), - Sorochen'ka [The magpie]
Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
Singer: Phyllis Bryn-Julson.
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain.

00:03
Igor Stravinsky
3 Little songs (Recollections of my childhood),- no.2; Vorona [The rook]
Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
Singer: Phyllis Bryn-Julson.
Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain.

00:08
Igor Stravinsky
Les Cinq doigts - 8 easy pieces for piano
Performer: Massimiliano Damerini.

00:13
Igor Stravinsky
2 Poems of Paul Verlaine, arr. for baritone and chamber ensemble
Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
Singer: John Shirley-Quirk.
Performer: Ensemble InterContemporain.

00:20
Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento, arr. from 'Le baiser de la fee'
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
Conductor: London Sinfonietta.

00:33
Igor Stravinsky
The Nightingale - a musical fairy tale in 3 acts
Singer: Violeta Urmana.
Singer: Albert Schagidullin.
Singer: Natalie Dessay.
Singer: Laurent Naouri.
Orchestra: Paris Opera Orchestra.
Conductor: James Conlon.
Singer: Maxim Mikhailov.
Singer: Vsevolod Grivnov.
Choir: Paris Opera Chorus.
Singer: Marie McLaughlin.

00:47
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in E flat major Op.1
Conductor: Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy.
Orchestra: St. Petersburg New Philharmony Orchestra.

00:56
Igor Stravinsky
The Owl and the pussy-cat for voice and piano
Conductor: Robert Craft.
Singer: Adrienne Albert.

First broadcast: 04 Aug 2014 (b04d0qnl)
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