Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, L'oiseau de feu, u.a.

I feel this music more as being incidental... or spatial. It is more of sensation evocation, rather than emotions... more a music for the skin, than a music for the heart or mind.
In an earlier version of this same post I wrote

I (ashamed to confess, as usual :*(  ) did not find a particular connection to Le Sacre du Printemps. Conversely, I even feel relieved when I listened to L'oiseau de feu. Perhaps my still unsophisticated (although improving) ear still cherishes the comfort of acquaintance to a particular work.

I can say now, several months later that I enjoy it and anticipate listening to it. I have to say that I needed to watch a TV documentary that explained the Rite of Spring to the broad audience, in order to enjoy the deliberate inebriatedness of the work. I still will have to contrast this version to Maazel's with the Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin.

Claudio Abbado conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in this Deutsche Grammophon CD. With Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano; Ryland Davies, tenor; John Shirley-Quirk, bass

Name	Key	Part	Musicians	Observations
CD 1
Le Sacre du Printemps(La consagración de la primavera)		Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth		published 1947
Le Sacre du Printemps		Part 2: The Sacrifice		published 1947
L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird)				Suite 1919
Jeu de cartes
CD 2
Petrouchka		4 scenes
Pulcinella Ballet		in one act		revised version of 1947

de Falla, Stravinsky: El Amor brujo, El sombrero de tres picos, The Firebird,

These are good works. Very evocative, with attention to melody and instrumentation. I find it difficult not to relate these to incidental music. Probably due to auditive conditioning.

"El sombrero de tres picos" is one of my favorite pieces, the pace and rhythmic complexity of the main them is quite energizing.

Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin, conducted by Lorin Maazel.
Recorded Polydor, Stravinksy 1958, de Falla 1966.

Manuel de Falla



• El Amor brujo (L'Amour sorcier), Grace Bumbry, mezzosopran


• Tänze aus "El sombrero de tres picos"



Igor Stravinsky



• L'Oiseau de feu, Suite