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2020-02-19 18:01:00
Igor Stravinsky: Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka – Nour Ayadi (HD 1080p)
Moroccan pianist Nour Ayadi performs Igor Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka. Recorded at Théâtre de l'Alliance Française, Paris, on June 15, 2019.✻It was mostly at the urging of then 34 year old pianist Arthur Rubinstein (the "urging" was really an offer of 5000 francs – serious money for a composer reeling from the effects of the First World War) that, in 1921, Igor Stravinsky set about converting three portions of his already famous ballet Petrushka into a three-movement vehicle for solo piano. And yet, despite the lavish attention to orchestral detail that fills every measure of the ballet, it is not at all difficult to imagine the work in pianistic terms: Stravinsky's first sketches of Petrushka (from the summer of 1910) took the form of a concerto for piano and orchestra, and it was only at the urging of impresario Diaghilev that he rerouted his energies into a theatrical vein […]
2019-11-05 16:20:38
“You’re not going to believe how funny this is,” Karine Poghosyan alluded as she lit into a puckishly rhythmic passage in La Semaine Grasse, from Igor Stravinsky’s solo piano arrangement of Petrouchka at Carnegie Hall last night. She didn’t say that in as many words, relating that information with her fingers and her face instead. […]
2019-03-04 05:45:00
Tales from the East (CD review)
Music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky. EStrella Piano Duo. Sheridan Music Studio.Svetlana Belsky and Elena Doubovitskaya are superb pianists on their own; together as the EStrella Piano Duo, they are doubly superb. On this, their debut album, they play music by Russian composers who were inspired by the styles of the Middle East. Here's a rundown on the program: Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka: 1. Dance Russe 2. Chez Petrouchka 3. La Semaine Grasse 4. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: "Festival in Bagdad" Borodin: Prince Igor, "Polovetsian Dances": 5. Andantino 6. Allegro Vivo 7. Allegro 8. Presto 9. Prokofiev: Suite-Fantasy on Cinderella As these are all familiar orchestral pieces, it would be easy to claim the major attraction of these newly recorded works is the EStrella Duo performing them in arrangements for two pianos. But such […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-30 17:21:06
French opera and ballet chief dies
Dance sites are reporting the death on Sunday of Jean-Albert Cartier, a formidable organiser who founded the Ballet Theatre Francais in Nancy, the Festival d’Anjou, and the summer academy Europe Danse in Grasse. Born in Marseille in 1930, he was the founding director of the Chatelet theatre through the 1980s, general administrator of the Paris Opera 1989-91 and, from 1994 general director at the Opera in Nice. Until 1999 he was president of Unesco’s International Dance Institute. More here.
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