New Album Releases: STRAVINSKY - VIOLIN CONCERTO; SCHERZO A LA RUSSE; APOLLON MUSAGETE; ORCHESTRAL SUITES (James Ehnes, BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis)

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Artist:
James Ehnes
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
69:45

Record Label:
Chandos

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
January 5, 2024




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Product Description: 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 musagete, 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.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . I. Toccata. Tempo Quarter Note = 96 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (05:56)

2 . II. Aria I. Tempo Quarter Note = 116 .- Più mosso - Più lento - Tempo I - [ ] - Tempo I Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (04:21)

3 . III. Aria II. Tempo Eighth Note = 48 .- Poco più mosso - Tempo I Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (05:46)

4 . IV. Capriccio.Tempo Eighth Note = 120 .- Poco più tranquillo - Subito più mosso - Presto Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (06:21)

5 . Scherzo à la russé, K 070 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (04:06)

6 . I. Andante. Quarter Note = 86 .- 92 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:23)

7 . II. Napolitana. Dotted Quarter Note = 144 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:21)

8 . III. Española. Dotted Quarter Note = 54 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:09)

9 . IV. Balalaïka. Quarter Note = 144 .- 132 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:11)

10 . I. Marche. Quarter Note = 80 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:18)

11 . II. Valse. Dotted Half Note = 66 .- [Trio I] - [Valse] - [Trio II.] Rubato - Tempo - Rubato - Tempo - Rubato - Tempo - [Valse] Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (02:22)

12 . III. Polka. Half Note = 96 . Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:09)

13 . IV. Galop. Half Note = 126 .- Trio - [Galop da capo] Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (02:26)

14 . Premier Tableau (prologue). Naissance d'Apollon. Largo - [Rideau] - [Apollon vient au monde (Apollo arrives on Earth)] - Allegro [Apparition des deux déesses (Appearance of the two Goddesses)] - Tempo I - [Lumièrej. Nouveau décor. Apollon seul sur la scèn Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (05:21)

15 . Second Tableau. Variation d'Apollon (Apollon et les Muses) Quarter Note = 66 .- L'istesso tempo - Meno mosso [Apparition de Calliope, Polymnie et Terpsichore (Appearance of Calliope, Polyhymnia, and Terpsichore)] - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (03:08)

16 . Pas d'Action. Apollon et les trois Muses: Calliope, Polymnie et Terpsichore. Moderato - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (04:25)

17 . Variation de Calliope (l'Alexandrin). Allegretto - Poco meno mosso - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:28)

18 . Variation de Polymnie. Allegro - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:20)

19 . Variation de Terpsichore. Allegretto - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (01:35)

20 . Variation d'Apollon. Lento - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (02:23)

21 . Pas de Deux. Apollon et Terpsichore. Adagio - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (04:20)

22 . Coda (Apollon et les Muses). Vivo - Tempo sostenuto - Agitato - Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (03:20)

23 . Apothéose. Largo e tranquillo Igor Stravinsky Andrew Davis / James Ehnes / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (03:36)

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