Diaghilev - Ballets Russes
0190296477157 (Warner Classics, CD, 22 discs)
COMPILATION (11 March 2022)
Booklet pages: 56
℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Ltd (but some tracks licenced by Chandos, Decca, Guilde Internationale du Disque and Naxos Music)
© 2022 Parlophone Records Ltd
Country of manufacture: Germany
Reviewer: Giuseppe Pennisi
Review of Diaghilev - Ballets Russes published on 28 May 2022
Various performers
CD1
Nikolai Tcherepnin:
La Pavillon d'Armide - fantastic ballet
CD2
Alexander Borodin:
Les Danses polovtsiennes (Prince Igor)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade
CD3
Adolphe Charles Adam:
Giselle - ballet in two acts
CD4
Robert Schumann:
Carnaval, Op 9 - ballet-pantomime
Igor Stravinsky:
The Firebird - complete ballet
CD5
Nikolai Tcherepnin:
Narcisse et Écho, ballet Op 40
Carl Maria von Weber, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz:
L'Invitation à la valse
CD6
CD7
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Swan Lake, ballet in two acts and three tableaux, Op 20
CD8
Igor Stravinsky:
Petrushka - burlesque in four scenes
Paul Dukas:
La Péri: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
La Péri - poème dansé
Claude Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - symphonic poem
CD9
Mily Balakirev:
Thamar - symphonic poem
Maurice Ravel:
Daphnis et Chloé
CD10
Claude Debussy:
Jeux - poème dansé
Igor Stravinsky:
Le Sacre du printemps
Florent Schmitt:
La Tragédie de Salomé, ballet in two parts, suite for female chorus and orchestra
CD11
Richard Strauss:
La Légende de Joseph - symphonic fragment, Op 63
Igor Stravinsky:
Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) - lyric tale in three acts after Andersen
CD12
Richard Strauss:
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - symphonic poem, Op 28
Gabriel Fauré:
Pavane in F sharp minor, for orchestra and chorus ad lib, Op 50
Vincenzo Tommasini, after Domenico Scarlatti:
Le donne di buon umore (The Good-humoured Ladies) - suite
Igor Stravinsky:
Feu d'artifice - a fantasy for large orchestra, Op 4
Anatoly Liadov:
Kikimora, symphonic poem, Op 63
Baba-Yaga, symphonic poem, Op 56
Erik Satie:
Parade - ballet
CD13
Ottorino Respighi, after Gioachino Rossini:
La Boutique fantasque (The Magic Toyshop) - ballet suite, Op 120
Manuel de Falla:
El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
CD14
Igor Stravinsky:
Le Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) - symphonic poem
Pulcinella - ballet in one act for small orchestra with three solo voices, based on music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Domenico Gallo, Fortunato Celleri and Alessandro Parisotti
CD15
CD16
CD17
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Sleeping Beauty - ballet, Op 66
Sergei Prokofiev:
Chout (Le Bouffon) - ballet from the ballet, Op 21b
CD18
Igor Stravinsky:
Renard (Reynard) - a burlesque story in song and dance
Les Noces - Russian dance scenes with song and music
Francis Poulenc:
Les Biches - ballet
CD19
Modest Musorgsky, completed and orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
A Night on Bare Mountain
Georges Auric:
Les Fâcheux - ballet in one act
Darius Milhaud:
Le Train bleu - ballet in one act
Erik Satie, orchestrated by Darius Milhaud:
Jack in the box
CD20
Henri Sauguet:
La Chatte - ballet in one act
Erik Satie:
Mercure - ballet in three tableaux
Sergei Prokofiev:
The Steel Step - ballet, Op 41
Thomas Beecham, after George Frideric Handel:
The Gods go A'Begging - ballet suite
CD21
Igor Stravinsky:
Apollon musagète (Apollo) - ballet in two scenes for string orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev:
The Prodigal Son - ballet in three scenes, Op 46
CD22
Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Coronation Scene (Prologue) (Boris Godunov - opera in a prologue and four acts)
Igor Stravinsky:
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Erik Satie:
Parade - ballet
Active from 1909-1929, the artistic collaborations of Sergei Diaghilev’s company, the Ballets Russes, are now viewed as some of the most pivotal musical works of the 1900s. Bringing together names such as Picasso, Matisse and Coco Chanel with composers of the likes of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Satie, the productions of this company would go on to shape the performing arts right up to the present day. This is a comprehensive collection of the Ballets Russes' historical works, spanning 22 CDs and including works by Debussy, Dukas, Fauré, Milhaud, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Weber, and many more. In addition, it features three historical recordings: Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky (Chaliapin), Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps (Monteux) and Satie’s Parade (Markevitch). This box set, created to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Diaghilev's birth, also connects to a podcast of contemporary commentaries and recounts, bringing the Ballets Russes to life in the twenty-first century.
Newly remastered from original tapes in 192kHz/24-bit and first release on CD for some items.