Stravinsky: Orchestral Works

Stravinsky: Orchestral Works

CHSA 5315 (Chandos Records, SACD)

Multi-channel/Stereo
FIRST RELEASE (11 November 2022)

Playing time: 83'27"
Tracks: 13
Booklet pages: 30
℗ 2022 Chandos Records Ltd
© 2022 Chandos Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Stravinsky: Orchestral Works published on 11 October 2022

Ian Buckle, piano (tracks 11 and 13)
Clifford Lantaff, harp (tracks 12 and 13)
BBC Philharmonic
Yuri Torchinsky, leader
Andrew Davis, conductor

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):

1 Greeting Prelude (1955) for the eightieth birthday of Pierre Monteux

Symphony in C (1938-40), dedicated to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its existence
2 Moderato alla breve – Tempo agitato senza troppo accelerare –
Tempo I
3 Larghetto concertante – Doppio movimento – Doppio valore –
4 Allegretto – Meno mosso – Tempo I, Allegretto – Più mosso –
Tempo I
5 Largo – Tempo giusto, alla breve – Largo (Doppie del Tempo I) –
A tempo [giusto] – Alle breve (in 2) – Poco meno mosso

Divertimento (1934, revised 1949) - symphonic suite from the ballet The Fairy's Kiss (1928)
6 Sinfonia
7 Danses suisses
8 Scherzo
9 Pas de deux

10 Circus Polka (1942) composed for a young elephant - symphonic version (1944)

Symphony in Three Movements (1942-45), dedicated to the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society
11 crotchet=160
12 Andante - Più mosso - Tempo I –
13 Interlude. L'istesso tempo - Con moto – Più presto – Meno mosso (Con moto) – L'istesso tempo, tranquillo – Alla breve – Agitato ma sempre l'istesso tempo

Andrew Davis directs the BBC Philharmonic in this all-Stravinsky programme, in which the Symphony in C and Symphony in Three Movements feature alongside the Divertimento, Greeting Prelude, and Circus Polka.

Recorded on 26 April 2019 (Symphony in C) and 21 and
22 March 2022 (other works) at MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester, UK.