Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete

Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete
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Composer: Stravinsky
Conductor: Dutoit
Orchestra: Osm
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-07-19
Music Label: Decca / London
Soundtracks:
  1. Con in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks': I. Tempo giusto
  2. Con in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks': II. Allegretto
  3. Con in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks': III. Con moto
  4. Danses concertantes: I. Marche: Intro
  5. Danses concertantes: II. Pas d'action
  6. Danses concertantes: III. Theme varie
  7. Danses concertantes: IV. Pas de deux
  8. Danses concertantes: V. Marche: Conclusion
  9. Con in D: I. Vivace
  10. Con in D: II. Arioso
  11. Con in D: III. Rondo
  12. Apollon musagete, Premier tableau: Prologue Naissance d'Apollon
  13. Apollon musagete, Second tableau: Var d'Apollon: Apollon & les Muses
  14. Apollon musagete, Second tableau: Pas d'action: Apollon & les trois Muses
  15. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Var de Calliope (l'Alexandrin)
  16. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Var de Polymnie
  17. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Var de Terpsichore
  18. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Var d'Apollon
  19. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Pas de deux: Apollon & Terpsichore
  20. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Coda: Apollon & les Muses
  21. Apollon musagete. Callipoe, Polymnie et Terpsichore: Apotheose

Music reviews of Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete

Music Review: Elegant readings of four neoclassic notables
Rating: 4 Stars

Critics groused at the time -- the early Twenties -- when the revolutionary Stravinsky gave up the hair-raising barbarism of 'Le sacre' for the pale, cool temple of neoclassicism. There was general shock, as if Lenin had given up the people's struggle, that an icon of modernism should go soft. But Stravinsky stuck to his guns through The Rake's Progress in 1950, a lng fertile stretch that produced many masterpieces.

Here we have four restrained works, two for small orchestra, two for strings. The major work is Apollo -- traveling under its original title, Apollon musaget, or "Apollo, inspirer of the Muses" -- which marked Stravinsky's first collaboration with Balanchine in 1927-28. The last work to be composed, Concerto in D from 1946, was turned into Jerome Robbins's most famous early ballet, The Cage. S dance rhythms and concerto grosso form are the dominant theme.

One could be forgiven for finding this CD much of a muchness. Dutoit conducts in a uniformly suave, elegant style, somewhat more romanticized than Stravinsky's acerbic podium style. I don't think anything on this 1994 release surpasses the authoritative accounts we have from the composer and his close associate, Ernest Ansermet. Even Robert Craft, hardly a maestro, is more energetic in all these works. But I have never heard them better played technically, and Decca's sound is impeccable.
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