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Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella - complete ballet/Fairy's Kiss ("Le Baiser de la Fée") (Naxos Audio CD)

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Catalogue No: 8557503
Shop Product Code: 211596J

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Department: CDs - Classical CDs: Orchestral

Publisher: Select Music

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Pulcinella (complete)/Danses Concertantes (Naxos Audio CD) - Stravinsky, Igor

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Robin Leggate (tenor)
Diana Montague (mezzo soprano)
Mark Beesley (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft, conductor

Stravinsky's one-act ballet with song, Pulcinella, is no mere re-working of music by Pergolesi and other 18th-century Italian composers.

Instead he uses the originals as a springboard for experimentation, transforming the music into a modern work by means of quirky instrumentation, ostinato melodies, and other 20th-cnetury devices.

The ballet The Fairys Kiss, at another extreme, is a largely original composition. Stravinsky greatly altered, developed, and elaborated melodies from early piano pieces and songs by Tchaikovsky, expanding them into sizeable ballet numbers to form a continuous dance symphony.

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