Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 11, 2016
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      STRAVINSKY, IGOR
    • PERFORMER
      Child, Mcguire, Biehl, Yang, Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, Berlin, Falletta
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 11, 2016
    • UPC
      747313353774
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573537
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Part I: Introduction: The Soldier's March (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    2. Part I: This isn't a bad place to stop… (Soldier, Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Jared McGuire, Fred Child

    3. Part I Scene 1: Airs by a Stream

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    4. Part I Scene 1: Give me your fiddle… (Devil, Soldier, Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Jeff Biehl, Jared McGuire, Fred Child

    5. Part I Scene 1: The Soldier's March (reprise) (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    6. Part I Scene 1: Hurray, here we are!… (Narrator, Soldier)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child, Jared McGuire

    7. Part I Scene 2: Pastorale

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    8. Part I Scene 2: The Soldier looks up… (Narrator, Soldier, Devil)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child, Jared McGuire, Jeff Biehl

    9. Part I Scene 2: Pastorale (reprise)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    10. Part I Scene 2: He took the book and began to read… (Narrator, Soldier)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child, Jared McGuire

    11. Part I Scene 3: Airs by a Stream: Just to stretch out on the grass… (Narrator, Soldier, Devil)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Jared McGuire, Jeff Biehl, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    12. Part I Scene 3: Airs by a Stream (reprise)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    13. Part II: The Soldier's March (reprise): Down a hot and dusty road… (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    14. Part II: Now he comes to another land… (Narrator, Soldier)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child, Jared McGuire

    15. Part II: Royal March

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    16. Part II: They gave the word for the band to play… (Soldier, Narrator, Devil)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Jared McGuire, Fred Child, Jeff Biehl

    17. Part II: The Little Concert

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    18. Part II: There on her bed the Princess lies… (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child

    19. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 1. Tango

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    20. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 2. Valse

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    21. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 3. Ragtime

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    22. Part II: The Soldier holds the Princess close… (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child

    23. Part II: The Devil's Dance

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    24. Part II: The Devil's exhausted… (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Fred Child

    25. Part II: The Little Chorale

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    26. Part II: The Devil's Song: All right! I shall have to wait… (Devil)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Jeff Biehl, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    27. Part II: Grand Chorale: You must not seek to add to what you have… (Narrator)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child, Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    28. Part II: I have everything… (Soldier, Narrator, Devil)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Jared McGuire, Fred Child, Jeff Biehl

    29. Part II: Triumphal March of the Devil

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Tianwa Yang

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta


This album, featuring violinist Tianwa Yang and the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, contains one of Igor Stravinsky’s small-scale theatrical works, The Soldier’s Tale (1918). Stravinsky wrote this work in collaboration with author Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, and artist Rene-Victor Auberjonois. The work is based in a Russian folk tale by Alexander Afanasyev, and is scored for two speakers, a narrator, and a septet, as well as a non-speaking dance role. Pamela Berlin directs this production, and Joann Falletta is the conductor of the instrumentalists.