Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring; Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG6502295-2
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 19th January 2024
Contents
Artists
Tokyo Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Andrea BattistoniWorks
West Side Story: Symphonic DancesThe Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
Artists
Tokyo Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Andrea BattistoniAbout
Even though the Sacre is now part of the repertoire of all major orchestras, its powerful music with stomping rhythms and expressive instrumentation still seems extremely modern today. The audience at the premiere is said to have burst out laughing at the beginning of the bassoon solo – today, more than a hundred years later, aspiring bassoonists must master the agonising high notes.
Romeo and Juliet were the godfather of West Side Story. The way Bernstein sets the rivalry between Puerto Ricans and Anglo-Americans in New York in the 1950s to music is astonishing: modern jazz meets Latino rhythms, mambo and cha-cha meet scherzo and fugue. The Symphonic Dances condense the eternally young plot with hits such as "Somewhere" into a touchingly rousing orchestral suite.
Almost 50 years lie between the creation of the two works, and while the Sacre catapulted ballet into the 20th century, freed from plush, West Side Story emancipated the musical as absolutely equal to opera and operetta. Battistoni stages the contrasting works with audible joy in the rhythm, which here and there becomes an immediate physical experience.
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