[ Warner Classics / 22 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 11 March 2022
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A transformative force in music, dance and the visual arts, the Ballets russes was founded in Paris in 1909 by the visionary impresario Serge Diaghilev. Innovative and flamboyant, he had a genius for bringing together the most brilliant composers, dancers, choreographers and designers, for nurturing creativity, and for galvanising audiences. Emblematic of the influence of the Ballets russes was the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps: it caused a notorious scandal, but it also changed musical history. This 22CD set traces the company's path through the 20 years of its existence - a tumultuous, but artistically fertile period - and comprises the vast majority of Ballets russes scores that have been recorded. Encompassing epoch-making works and rarities awaiting rediscovery, it offers a number of CD premieres and landmark interpretations by major musicians of the 78, LP and digital eras
Tcherepnin, N: Le Pavillon d'Armide
Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Adam: Giselle
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Tcherepnin, N: Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40
Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Dukas: Fanfare to La Peri
Dukas: La Péri
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Balakirev: Symphonic Poem 'Tamara'
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
Debussy: Jeux - Poème dansé
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Schmitt, F: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50
Strauss, R: Josephs-Legende: Symphonic Fragment, Op.63a
Stravinsky: The Nightingale
Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Tommasini, V: Le donne di buon umore Suite
Stravinsky: Fireworks, Op. 4
Liadov: Kikimora, Op. 63
Liadov: Baba-Yaga, Op. 56
Satie: Parade
Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, PP120
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Prokofiev: Chout - Suite, Op.21a
Stravinsky: Renard
Stravinsky: Les Noces
Poulenc: Les Biches
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Auric: Les Facheux - ballet in one act
Milhaud: Le Train Bleu, Op. 84
Satie: Jack in the Box
Sauguet: Le Chatte
Satie: Mercure - Poses plastiques en trois tableaux
Prokofiev: Le Pas d'acier (The Steel Dance): Suite Op. 41b
Beecham: The Gods go A'Begging
Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
Prokofiev: The Prodigal Son, Op. 46
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Historical Recordings:
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov: Coronation Scene (Chaliapin)
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (Monteux)
Satie: Parade (Markevitch)