PENTATONE
Stravinsky: Persephone / Salonen, Staples, Cheviller, Finnish National Orchestra
$21.99
Details
- Composer
- STRAVINSKY, IGOR
- Artist
- Staples, Cheviller, Salonen
- Format
- SACD
- Label
- PENTATONE
- Released
- Sep 07, 2018
- Catalog #
- PTC5186688
- UPC
- 827949068867
About
Stravinsky’s Perséphone (1934) is a dynamic music-theatrical narration of the myth of Persephone’s abduction to the underworld and return to earth. The transparent, sober but evocative music epitomizes Stravinsky’s sensuous take on Neoclassicism, and the piece showcases Stravinsky’s eclectic, original and highly personal approach to music and musical drama through a playful mixture of several genres – melodrama, song, chorus, dance and pantomime. Ultimately, Perséphone offers Stravinsky’s second ode to spring, albeit without the brutal excesses of Le Sacre. This album was recorded live during the Helsinki Festival 2017 with a star cast featuring English tenor Andrew Staples and French actress Pauline Cheviller. They join forces with the Finnish National Opera’s chorus, children’s chorus and orchestra, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, in a breath-taking performance that lifts out the piece’s transformative power.
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REVIEW:
Radiant beauty is not a quality that is automatically associated with Stravinsky’s music. But in Perséphone he composed one of the most radiant and lyrically beautiful scores to be found anywhere in 20th-century music. It’s one of his greatest achievements. It's a beautifully modulated performance; nothing is forced, and all the elements, sung, played, and spoken, are well and carefully integrated.
– Guardian (UK)
Tracklist 13 tracks
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1 Part I: Déesse aux mille noms, puissante Déméter (Eumolphe) 02:08
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Part I: Déesse aux mille noms, puissante Déméter (Eumolphe)
- Duration
- 02:08
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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2 Part I: Reste avec nous, princesse Perséphone (Chorus, Perséphone, Eumolphe) 05:45
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Part I: Reste avec nous, princesse Perséphone (Chorus, Perséphone, Eumolphe)
- Duration
- 05:45
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Pauline Cheviller, Andrew Staples
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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3 Part I: Perséphone, un peuple t'attend (Eumolphe, Perséphone) 02:33
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Part I: Perséphone, un peuple t'attend (Eumolphe, Perséphone)
- Duration
- 02:33
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples, Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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4 Part II: Ô peuple douloureux des ombres, tu m'attires (Perséphone, Eumolphe) 04:11
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Part II: Ô peuple douloureux des ombres, tu m'attires (Perséphone, Eumolphe)
- Duration
- 04:11
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Pauline Cheviller, Andrew Staples
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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5 Part II: Sur ce lit elle repose (Chorus) 03:48
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Part II: Sur ce lit elle repose (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:48
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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6 Part II: Ma mère Déméter, que la vie était belle (Perséphone, Chorus) 01:29
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Part II: Ma mère Déméter, que la vie était belle (Perséphone, Chorus)
- Duration
- 01:29
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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7 Part II: Tu viens pour dominer (Eumolphe, Perséphone, Chorus) 09:03
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Part II: Tu viens pour dominer (Eumolphe, Perséphone, Chorus)
- Duration
- 09:03
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples, Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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8 Part II: Le printemps, c'est toi! (Chorus, Perséphone) 01:49
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Part II: Le printemps, c'est toi! (Chorus, Perséphone)
- Duration
- 01:49
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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9 Part II: Pauvres ombres désespérées (Eumolphe, Perséphone, Chorus) 04:25
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Part II: Pauvres ombres désespérées (Eumolphe, Perséphone, Chorus)
- Duration
- 04:25
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples, Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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10 Part III: C'est ainsi, nous raconte Homère (Eumolphe) 03:29
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Part III: C'est ainsi, nous raconte Homère (Eumolphe)
- Duration
- 03:29
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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11 Part III: Venez à nous, enfants des hommes (Chorus, Children) 06:10
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Part III: Venez à nous, enfants des hommes (Chorus, Children)
- Duration
- 06:10
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Children's Chorus, Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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12 Part III: Parle, Perséphone, raconte (Chorus, Perséphone) 03:11
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Part III: Parle, Perséphone, raconte (Chorus, Perséphone)
- Duration
- 03:11
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Pauline Cheviller
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen
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13 Part III: Ainsi vers l'ombre souterraine (Eumolphe, Chorus) 02:02
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Part III: Ainsi vers l'ombre souterraine (Eumolphe, Chorus)
- Duration
- 02:02
- Composer
- Igor Stravinsky
- Performer
- Andrew Staples
- Ensemble
- Finnish National Opera Children's Chorus, Finnish National Opera Chorus, Finnish National Opera Orchestra
- Conductor
- Esa-Pekka Salonen