Igor Stravinsky
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"...in terms of archival importance, [Stravinsky's] discography, especially the Columbia recordings now reissued by Sony Classical, is the greatest landmark in the history of recorded music from the classical tradition."
The New York Times, June 1999
The Original Jacket Collection deluxe box sets celebrate the great legacy that is Columbia and CBS Masterworks in the 20th Century.
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The effort to record all of Stravinsky's works was one of the greatest achievements of Columbia Masterworks. The selections in this set are an excellent primer for anyone interested in the major scores of one of the century's greatest composers. All selections have been remastered and are also available on the Stravinsky Edition (SX22K 46290), the 22-CD set of his complete stereo recordings.
As a bonus we include rare 1940s recordings of several shorter works as gathered on the LP ML 4398 in 1950 and two stereo selections that were inexplicably left off the CD reissue of SX22K 46290. A 72-page deluxe booklet includes a new introductory essay by Stravinsky's friend and collaborator Robert Craft and excerpts from the original LP liner notes.
The Original Jacket Collection deluxe box sets offer handsome mini-jacket reproductions at CD size of the original LP jackets, celebrating the great legacy that is Columbia and CBS Masterworks in the 20th Century. Each set is a limited-edition, deluxe item, and each disc recreates the arrangement of repertoire on the original LP, with bonus material and an extensive 76-page booklet in three languages.
The CDs in this set re-create the following original LPs in look and sequence:
- MS 6319 (SMK 64138)
Stravinsky Conducts
Le Sacre du printemps
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
CD-Extra included on this disc! Complete liner notes and selected lyrics from the original LPs, including important contributions from Stravinsky himself!
- MS 6328 (SMK 64139)
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete ballet)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- MS 7011 (SMK 64140)
Stravinsky Conducts
Firebird Suite (1945 version)
Petrushka Suite (1945 revised version)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- MS 7093 (SMK 64148)
Stravinsky Conducts
L'Histoire du soldat Suite
Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- M 30579 (SMK 64149)
Stravinsky Conducts Music for Chamber and Jazz Ensembles
Preludium for Jazz Ensemble
Columbia Jazz Combo, Igor Stravinsky
Pastorale
Israel Baker, Violin; Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
Rag-time for 11 Instruments
Toni Koves, Cimbalom; Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
Octet for Wind Instruments
Columbia Chamber Ensemble (newly remastered for this edition)
Tango
Columbia Jazz Combo, Igor Stravinsky
Concertino for 12 Instruments
Ebony Concerto
Benny Goodman, Clarinet; Columbia Jazz Combo, Igor Stravinsky
- M 31124 (SMK 64150)
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky
Choral Music
The Star Spangled Banner
(Harmonized and orchestrated by Igor Stravinsky)
Toronto Festival Singers; CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (first CD release)
Four Russian Songs for Voice, Flute, Harp and Guitar
Adrienne Albert, Soprano; Louise di Tuillio, Flute; Dorothy Remsen, Harp; Laurendo Almeida, Guitar
Four Russian Peasant Songs for Equal Voices with Four Horns
Gregg Smith Singers
Renard ("The Fox") (1962 version)
George Shirley, Loren Driscoll, Tenors; William Murphy, Baritone; Donald Gramm, Bass; Toni Koves, Cimbalom
The Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
Zvezdoliki ("Le Roi des étoiles")
The Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, Director; CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Babel
John Colicos, Narrator; CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Ave Maria
Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, Director; Igor Stravinsky
Credo (1964 version)
The Gregg Smith Singers; Igor Stravinsky
Pater Noster
Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, Director; Igor Stravinsky
Bach: Chorale Variations on the German Christmas carol "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her"
Arranged by Igor Stravinsky)
The Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, Director; The CBC Symphony Orchestra; Igor Stravinsky
- MS 6548 (SMK 64151)
Stravinsky Conducts
Symphony of Psalms
Festival Singers of Toronto
Symphony in C
CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- MS 7054 (SMK 64192)
Recent Stravinsky Conducted by the Composer
Fanfare for Two Trumpets
Robert Heinrich snd Robert E. Nagel, Trumpets (first CD release)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Poem by Edward Lear
Adrienne Albert, Soprano; Robert Craft, Piano
Septet
Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Igor Stravinsky
Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Charles Rosen, Piano; Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Anthem ("The Dove Descending Breaks the Air")
Words By T.S. Eliot
The Festival Singers of Toronto, Elmer Iseler, Director
Double Canon for String Quartet
Israel Baker and Otis Igleman, Violins; Sanford Schonbach, Viola; George Neikrug, Cello
Epitaphium
Arthur Gleghorn, Flute; Kalman Bloch, Clarinet; Dorothy Remsen, Harp
Elegy for J.F.K.
Poem By W.H. Auden
Cathy Berberian, Mezzo-Soprano; Paul E. Howland, Jack Kreiselman and Charles Russo, Clarinets
A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer
Shirley Verrett, Mezzo-Soprano; Loren Driscoll, Tenor; John Horton, Speaker; The CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
- BONUS DISC:
ML 4398 (SMK 64196)
"Meet the Composer"
Igor Stravinsky Conducting and Playing His Own Works
Fireworks, Op.4 (recorded January 28, 1946)
Ode
Four Norwegian Moods
Circus Polka
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Ebony Concerto (recorded August 19, 1946)
Woody Herman Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
Russian Maiden's Song (recorded May 9, 1946)
Igor Stravinsky, Piano; Joseph Szigeti; Violin
First release of these mono 1940s New York Philharmonic recordings and others, newly remastered from original sources!
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