Stravinsky: l'Oiseau de feu, Le Sacre du printemps / Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
April 27, 1999
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STRAVINSKY, IGOR
    • PERFORMER
      Michael Tilson Thomas
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 27, 1999
    • UPC
      090266889822
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      09026688982
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    2. Scene 1: Night. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    3. Scene 1: The Firebird enters, pursued by Ivan Tsarevich

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    4. Scene 1: The Firebird's Dance

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    5. Scene 1: Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    6. Scene 1: Plea of the Firebird - Apparition of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    7. Scene 1: The Princesses play with the golden apples (Scherzo)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    8. Scene 1: Ivan Tsarevich appears

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    9. Scene 1: The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    10. Scene 1: Ivan Tsarevich, entering Kastchei's palace …

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    11. Scene 1: Magic Carillon - Appearance of Kastchei's Guardian Monsters - Capture of Ivan Tsarevich

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    12. Scene 1: Dance of Kastchei's retinue under the Firebird's magic spell

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    13. Scene 1: Infernal Dance of Kastchei and his subjects under the Firebird's magic spell

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    14. Scene 2: Disappearance of the Palace and of the Magic Spells of Kashchei - Animation of the Petrified Knights - All Rejoice

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    15. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Introduction

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    16. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the Young Girls

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    17. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of Abduction

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    18. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Spring Rounds

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    19. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of the River Tribes

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    20. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Procession of the Sage

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    21. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: The Sage

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    22. Part I: Adoration of the Earth: Dance of the Earth

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    23. Part II: The Sacrifice: Introduction

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    24. Part II: The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    25. Part II: The Sacrifice: Glorification of the Chosen One

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    26. Part II: The Sacrifice: Evocation of the Ancestors

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    27. Part II: The Sacrifice: Ritual Action of the Ancestors

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    28. Part II: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    29. L'enlevement de Persephone (The Abduction of Persephone)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Girls Chorus, Ragazzi Boys Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Stephanie Cosserat, Stuart Neill

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    30. Persephone aux Enfers (Persephone in the Underworld)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Girls Chorus, Ragazzi Boys Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Stephanie Cosserat, Stuart Neill

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas

    31. Renaissance de Persephone (Rebirth of Persephone)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: San Francisco Girls Chorus, Ragazzi Boys Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Stephanie Cosserat, Stuart Neill

      Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas


This recording received the 2000 Grammy awards for "Best Classical Album" and "Best Orchestral Performance."
Here's a slightly odd trio. 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite of Spring' are two of the three ballets that so sensationally launched Igor Stravinsky's career, but instead of including the intervening 'Petrouchka,' the package features 'Persephone,' a difficult-to-classify work from two decades later. Dancer Ida Rubenstein commissioned this combination of rhythmic narration, singing, and dance, hooking Stravinsky up with writer Andre Gide to concoct a telling of the myth of Persephone, daughter of the fertility goddess Demeter, whose journey to the underworld causes winter to descend upon the Earth. It is a kinder, gentler, classicized 'Rite of Spring' of sorts, and one of Stravinsky's freshest, most beautiful, and sadly neglected scores.
All three works receive alert, sensitive, and wonderfully colorful performances from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, made all the more alluring by a truly sensational recording.