Stravinsky - Les Noces (1919); Ravel - Bolero (arr. Melchior)
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Label: Aparte
Cat No: AP300
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 17th March 2023
Contents
Artists
Ensemble AedesLes Siecles
Conductor
Mathieu RomanoWorks
Bolero (arr. Robin Melchior)Les Noces (The Wedding)
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Artists
Ensemble AedesLes Siecles
Conductor
Mathieu RomanoAbout
These ‘choreographed scenes with music and voices’ represent, in four tableaux, the Russian folk wedding ritual. Sober, stylised, razor-sharp, Stravinsky’s music combines rhythmic brutality with an incantatory force, evoking both the timelessness and the inexorability of that ritual.
There were several attempts at different instrumentations of the work. Here Mathieu Romano, the Ensemble Aedes and Les Siècles present the world premiere recording of the full 1919 version (completed in 2007 by Theo Verbey), written for an ensemble of percussion instruments, two Hungarian cymbaloms, a harmonium, a pianola, and voices.
The same unusual instrumentation, clear, incisive, precise, is used for Robin Melchior’s arrangement of Ravel’s Boléro: an unexpected and amazing, suave, and totally successful.
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