Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Firebird

Klaus Mäkelä

SKU: 4853947

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  • Genre: Classical
  • Label: Decca
  • Released Date: 16th June 2023
  • Buying Format:
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Klaus Mäkelä brings the Orchestre de Paris to Decca Classics for a major new album of Stravinsky’s most iconic ballet scores. The album represents Mäkelä’s first recording with his French orchestra, which will be followed by a further Ballet Russes release in 2024 featuring Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Debussy’s Jeux and L’Apres midi d’une faune.

Klaus Mäkelä has electrified the musicians and audiences of the Orchestre de Paris since the start of his Music Directorship in September 2021. One of the major projects of his second season at the Philharmonie de Paris was a traversal of Stravinsky’s pivotal ballet scores The Firebird and The Rite of Spring that proved anything but routine. The performances captured live on Decca’s new release carry the combination of intensity, intelligence and authority on which the young conductor is building his extraordinary career.

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Track Listings

Le Sacre du Printemps
i. L'Adoration de la Terre (Adoration of the Earth)
1. Introduction
2. Augures printaniers (Harbingers of Spring)
3. Jeu du rapt (Mock Abduction)
4. Rondes printanières (Spring Rounds)
5. Jeux des cités rivales (Games of the Rival Tribes)
6. Cortège du sage (Procession of the Sage)
7. l’Adoration de la Terre (Adoration of the Earth)
8. Danse de la terre (Dance of the Earth)
ii. Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice)
9. Introduction
10. Cercles mystérieux des adolescentes (Mystic Circles of the Adolescents)
11. Glorification de l'élue (Glorification of the Victim)
12. Evocation des ancêtres (Evocation of the Ancestors)
13. Action rituelle des ancêtres (Ritual of the Ancestors)
14. Danse sacrale (L'Élue) (Sacred Dance)
L'Oiseau de feu, ballet intégral [version 1910-1911]
15. Introduction
i. Tableau
16. Le jardin enchanté de Kastchei
17. Apparition de l’oiseau de feu, poursuivi par Ivan Tsarevitch
18. Danse de l’oiseau de feu
19. Capture de l’oiseau de feu par Ivan Tsarevitch
20. Supplications de l’oiseau de feu
21. Apparition des treize princesses enchantées
22. Jeu de princesses avec les pommes d’or
23. Brusque apparition d’Ivan Tsarevitch
24. Khorovod (Ronde) des princesses
25. Lever du jour
26. Carillon féérique, apparition des Monstres-gardiens de Kastchei
27. Arrivée de Kastchei l’immortel, Dialogue de Kastchei avec Ivan Tsarevitch, Intercession des princesses
28. Apparition de l’oiseau de feu
29. Danse de la suite de Kastchei enchantée par l’oiseau de feu
30. Danse infernale de tous les sujets de Kastchei
31. Berceuse (l’oiseau de feu)
32. Réveil de Kastchei, Mort de Kastchei, Profondes tenèbres
ii. Tableau
33. Disparition du palais et des sortilèges de Kastchei, animation des chevaliers petrifiés. Allegresse génerale

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  • Genre: Classical
  • Label: Decca Music Group Ltd. [GB] | Decca Classics | Decca
  • SKU: 4870147
  • Formats: 2LP
  • Released Date: 8th March 2024