Stravinsky: Works for Orchestra / Ehnes, Davis, BBC Philharmonic

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
January 1, 1900
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Igor Stravinsky
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      James Ehnes
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 1900
    • UPC
      095115534021
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5340
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Toccata

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    2. II. Aria I

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    3. III. Aria II

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    4. IV. Capriccio

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: James Ehnes

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    5. Scherzo à la russe

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    6. I. Andante

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    7. II. Napolitana

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    8. III. Española

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    9. IV. Balalaika

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    10. I. Marche

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    11. II. Valse

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    12. III. Polka

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    13. IV. Galop

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    14. Tableau I: Prologue: The Birth of Apollo

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    15. Tableau II: Apollo's Variation

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    16. Tableau II: Pas d'action: Apollo and the Muses

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    17. Tableau II: Variation of Calliope

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    18. Tableau II: Variation of Polymnia

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    19. Tableau II: Variation of Terpsichore

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    20. Tableau II: Variation of Apollo

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    21. Tableau II: Pas de deux: Apollo and Terpsichore

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    22. Tableau II: Coda: Apollo and the Muses

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis

    23. Tableau II: Apotheosis: Apollo and the Muses

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Davis


One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as its inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A, which Stravinsky described as his ‘passport to the concerto’ and with which the solo violin part opens each movement. Dushkin gave the premiere, conducted by Stravinsky, in Berlin in 1932.

Apollon musagète, a ballet in two parts for string orchestra, was written in 1927-28, and demonstrates the composer’s complete rejection of the Russian folk music and idioms that had been so instrumental in his previous ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka). They are replaced by a concentration on ‘pure form’, which became known as his neo-classical style. The album is completed by his two orchestral suites – light-hearted music arranged from piano duets he had written in the 1910s – and Scherzo à la russe, a showpiece for the Paul Whiteman band that he composed in the early 1940s when newly arrived in California.