STRAVINSKY Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. Capriccio. Movements
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Composer or Director: Igor Stravinsky
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 02/2015
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 79
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHSA5147
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor |
Capriccio |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor |
Movements |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor |
Petrushka |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Yan Pascal Tortelier, Conductor |
Author: John Warrack
But it is the three works for solo piano which are the main point of this recording. Bavouzet has the expressive range demanded by the Concerto, which includes an appreciation of style including Baroque as well as tango, all somehow contained within a classical framework, while keeping a cool head through a forest of lightning tempo changes not excelled in The Rite of Spring itself. He is fully in control and has the ability to give it all a natural fluency, though, for all the respect he pays the work, it is difficult not feel that he enjoys himself more in the Capriccio. It is, of course, a much more enjoyable work, in that it has a lightness and immediacy of impact that also require from the performer the suggestion not to take life too seriously. As for Movements: written once Stravinsky’s arch-rival Schoenberg was safely dead and Webern was the flavour of the moment, it takes on Boulez and others in manipulating multi-serialism but actually does not break with techniques that were latent in Stravinsky himself as early as The Rite. Not that anyone is going to trouble with that in listening to what is best heard, surely, as the old master still able to write beguiling sounds. It is an oddity in his output, but of course worth including for the sake of completeness in this excellent record.
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