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Stravinsky - Apollo; Agon; Orpheus
 
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Stravinsky - Apollo; Agon; Orpheus
~ London Symphony Orchestra (Artist), Igor Stravinsky (Composer), Robert Craft (Conductor), St Luke's Orchestra (Orchestra)
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1. Prologue: The Birth Of Apollo - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
2. Apollo's Variation - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
3. Pas D'Action: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
4. Variation Of Calliope - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
5. Variation Of Polymnia - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
6. Variation Of Terpsichore - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
7. Variation Of Apollo - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
8. Pas De Deux: Apollo And Terpsichore - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
9. Coda: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
10. Apotheosis: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra Listen
11. Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
12. Double Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
13. Triple Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
14. Prelude - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
15. First Pas De Trois: Saraband-Step - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
16. Gaillarde - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
17. Coda - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
18. Interlude - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
19. Second Pas De Trois: Bransle Simple - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
20. Bransle Gay - Orchestra Of St. Luke's Listen
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fine Performances of Three Fine Stravinsky Ballets, 16 Jun 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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Whoever had the idea of putting these performances of three of Stravinsky's ballets based on classical Greek themes on the same CD should get a medal. They are plucked and combined from several Koch Classics releases of a few years ago. Naxos seems to be reissuing all of Robert Craft's Stravinsky performances from the Koch label, and that's good. Craft, who has an unwarranted reputation as a dry-as-dust conductor, actually puts quite a bit of juice in these lovely scores. Similar as they may be in thrust, these three scores are really quite different from each other. 'Apollo' (1927-28) is for strings alone and is quintessential neoclassicism. 'Orpheus' (1947), for full orchestra, mixes neoclassicism with old-fashioned lyrical romanticism; indeed it is Stravinsky's first work since 'Firebird' to use the marking 'espressivo.' 'Apollo' and 'Orpheus' are narrative ballets but 'Agon' (1957) is plotless. It is very nearly atonal and varies the orchestration for nearly all the sixteen variations; the full orchestra is never used for any of them. Yet, within a few notes anyone familiar with Stravinsky's sound will immediately identify the composer of any of these works. It's always seemed amazing to me that a twelve-tone work by Stravinsky still sounds like him.

In 'Apollo' (or 'Apollon musagète' as it is called in French) all violence and abrasiveness (as one might expect from the composer of 'The Rite of Spring') are eschewed. Rather the work coolly and lyrically limns the birth and life of Apollo in music that is like some 18th-century court ballet filtered through 19th-century French ballet composers like Adam and Delibes. Delicious. And deliciously performed here by the London Symphony under Craft.

'Orpheus' was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for George Balanchine who had suggested the subject. It was originally intended to be coupled with 'Apollo' in performance but in fact that did not happen at its première. Although narrative, it is intensely hieratic and uses neobaroque gestures including canon, other kinds of counterpoint, restless bass lines, ostinati and the like. It is more austere than 'Apollo' but lyrical nonetheless. It, too, is given a lovely, flexible, suave performance by the LSO.

'Agon' (Greek for 'contest') is essentially a dance contest before the gods. Not really quite atonal, but making use of a 12-tone row, it combines Renaissance dances (including a galliard in C major with a canon featuring harp and mandolin), coupled with what Stephen Walsh in Grove's calls 'high-speed stream-of-consciousness chromaticism.' Its première was conducted by Robert Craft, and here, conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's, he leads a fast-moving performance that occasionally gets a little out of breath, but is energetic and energizing for all that.

There have been other recordings of these works, including those conducted by Stravinsky himself, but these are satisfying and in modern sound.

Recommended.

TT=77:45

Scott Morrison

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