Les Noces / L'Histoire Du Soldat Suite

Kocian Quartet, Stravinsky - Les Noces / L'Histoire Du Soldat Suite

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Artist: Kocian Quartet, Stravinsky
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-12-15
Music Label: Praga Czech Rep.
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Part One, Scene 1:The Bride's Chamber - Brigita Sulcova/Miroslav Svejda/Anna Barova/Dalibor Jedlicka
Part One, Scene 2: At The Bridegroom - Brigita Sulcova/Miroslav Svejda/Anna Barova/Dalibor Jedlicka
Part One, Scene 3: The Bride's Departure - Brigita Sulcova/Miroslav Svejda/Anna Barova/Dalibor Jedlicka
Part Two, Scene 4: The Wedding Feast - Brigita Sulcova/Miroslav Svejda/Anna Barova/Dalibor Jedlicka
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste: The Soldier's March
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 1: Arias Along The Stream
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: Pastorale
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: The Royal March
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: The Little Conc
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: Three Dances
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: The Devil's Dance
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: The Great Chorale
The Soldier's Tale, Instrumental Ste-Scene 2: Triumphal March Of The Devil
Pleasant Songs: Uncle Armand/The Oven/The Colonel/The Old Man And The Hare - Marie Mrazova
Cat's Cradle Songs: On The Stove/At Home/Bai-bai (Dodo)/The Cat Has - Marie Mrazova
Three Songs From William Shakespeare: Music To Hear/Full Fathom Five/When Daisies Pied - Milada Boublikova
In Memoriam Dylan Thomas: Dirge-Canons (Prld)/Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night... - Vladimir Dolezal

Music reviews of Les Noces / L'Histoire Du Soldat Suite

Music Review: an excellent Stravinsky disc
Rating: 4 Stars

As rightly noted by the other reviewers, the highlight of this program is the much sought after re-release of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players' reading of the L'histoire du soldat suite. It's chamber playing of the first order, and of breathtaking virtuosity. The score comes off with that sense of a natural, inevitable progression of ideas that characterizes all great interpretations.

The rest of the album is devoted to vocal works. The performances (all of them by Czech musicians) are not of the same class as that of the Boston L'Histoire, but they are well-crafted and never less than adequeate.

Les Noces is a choral work accompanied by four pianos and percussion. It's at times acerbic, at times dark and gorgeous, at times dance-like and exuberant, and very Russian through and through with its emphasis on folk melody. The other pieces are short song cycles, each of them accompanied by small chamber ensembles rather than piano (which I like very much). In Memoriam Dylan Thomas is for a tenor with string quartet, with a quartet of trombones playing "dirge canons" separately, as prelude and postlude. Three Songs from William Shakespeare, sung in Shakespeare's original English, is of interest in that it was Stravinsky's first fully serial composition, dating from 1953; it's accompanied by viola, flute, and clarinet.

My favorite of the song cycles is the Pribaoutki, or "Joke Songs," for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, and winds. What a gem -- an unknown little masterpiece! But I couldn't tell you why it's called Joke Songs: it's my one major complaint about this album, that there is no libretto or translation included in the liner notes. All of these vocal works would certainly be worth much more if I knew what the words say.

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