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3(III=picc).2.corA.3(II=Ebcl,III=bcl).2-4.2.3.1-timp-string
quartet-strings

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Boosey & Hawkes

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Repertoire Note

Following the success of the Concerto for piano and winds, Stravinsky composed a second keyboard vehicle for himself with orchestra. On the heels of his Tchaikovsky ballet, The Fairy's Kiss, the Capriccio is as playful as the Concerto was earnest: its toccata energy is tongue-in-cheek. The dancing, leaping piano part generates a music-hall ebullience. Stravinsky compared the second movement cadenza, with its cimbalom-like hammerings and scales, to "a kind of Rumanian restaurant music." However fortuitously, the Capriccio and Concerto are foils for one another; they comprise a satisfying pairing.

Repertoire note by Joseph Horowitz

Recommended Recording
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Olli Mustonen/Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Decca 4402292

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