Stravinsky Day, Saturday 24 April 2021

[Bryn]

Searching out available recordings of the Violin Concerto, I came across Vol. XI of the Craft edition on Music Masters which also has The Flood. The Violin Concerto recording has been reissued as part of the Naxos Stravinsky/Craft series but The Flood remains restricted to that original Music Masters CD. Does anyone here know this recording of The Flood? Is it worth splashing out £15+ for a "Used: Very Good" copy?

[BBMmk2]

Does this indicate that your attitude towards Mozart extends towards his 'rapist', Stravinsky?

Ah, wrong thread!

[BBMmk2]

Does this indicate that your attitude towards Mozart extends towards his 'rapist', Stravinsky?

There used to be a delete button, can’t see it now?

[Pulcinella]

Searching out available recordings of the Violin Concerto, I came across Vol. XI of the Craft edition on Music Masters which also has The Flood. The Violin Concerto recording has been reissued as part of the Naxos Stravinsky/Craft series but The Flood remains restricted to that original Music Masters CD. Does anyone here know this recording of The Flood? Is it worth splashing out £15+ for a "Used: Very Good" copy?

Don't know it, but it has interesting couplings (including Movements), so I'd say it's worth the risk.
I don't see who the Narrator is, though: I'm a little bit allergic to Michael Berkeley (on the DG recording) in general (one reason I don't listen to Private Passions), but I do see that Robert Tear is Noah.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/stravinsky-vol-11-violin-concerto-ebony-concerto-the-flood-mw0001842848?cmpredirect

PS: I think it is a different performance of the Violin concerto that ended up on Naxos:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7956192--stravinsky-125th-anniversary-album

Jennifer Frautschi is the soloist on the Naxos recording, but Krzysztov Smietana is the soloist on the Music Masters one, which I didn't spot as having been reissued when I was compiling the list for the forthcoming BaL.

[Pulcinella]

Bryn (and others)

Here's a YouTube version of the Craft Music Masters performance:

https://youtu.be/GaFBznq7atk

Krzysztof Smietana
Philharmonia
Craft

Recorded April 1998

[Bryn]

Bryn (and others)

Here's a YouTube version of the Craft Music Masters performance:

https://youtu.be/GaFBznq7atk

Krzysztof Smietana
Philharmonia
Craft

Recorded April 1998

Yes, I've ordered the original MM CD. It appears that Craft recorded the work twice with the Philharmonia, once with Krzysztof Smietana as soloist, and on another occasion (can't find a recording date at the moment) with Jenifer Frautschi (the latter recording to be found on a Naxos disc).

[Pulcinella]

Yes, I've ordered the original MM CD. It appears that Craft recorded the work twice with the Philharmonia, once with Krzysztof Smietana as soloist, and on another occasion (can't find a recording date at the moment) with Jenifer Frautschi (the latter recording to be found on a Naxos disc).

The Naxos recording was made in 2006, according to Presto.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7956192--stravinsky-125th-anniversary-album

Jennifer Frautschi (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft
Recorded: 29-30 April 2006
Recording Venue: Abbey Road Studio 1, London, UK

[Bryn]

The Naxos recording was made in 2006, according to Presto.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7956192--stravinsky-125th-anniversary-album

Jennifer Frautschi (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft
Recorded: 29-30 April 2006
Recording Venue: Abbey Road Studio 1, London, UK

Thanks. I was too lazy to go and get the Naxos disc from the shelf in another room.

[Pulcinella]

Let's hope that the BBC has done its research better than Peter Quantrill, whose first sentence in an article entitled Stravinsky the conductor in the April 2021 issue of Gramophone reads:

Riccardo Chailly was 18 years old when Stravinsky died in Venice, in April 1971.

[Bryn]

Let's hope that the BBC has done its research better than Peter Quantrill, whose first sentence in an article entitled Stravinsky the conductor in the April 2021 issue of Gramophone reads:

Riccardo Chailly was 18 years old when Stravinsky died in Venice, in April 1971.

Phew! I did not know that poor old for was buried alive. How did they keep that quiet while shipping his still-living body from New York?

[Pulcinella]

As announced elsewhere, Radio 3's Stravinsky Day has now been rescheduled to take place on 24 April 2021.
Perhaps someone with title-editing facilities could amend/update the thread title accordingly.

[french frank]

Updated.

[Pulcinella]

Updated.

Thanks.

[Bryn]

An item of personal trivia: My birth certificate has an authorised correction on it. I was born close to midnight and the date was initially recorded as the 24th, the clock having struck 12 by the time the documentation was filled in. However, someone or other noted the error as the birth certificate was prepared. Some 20 years later, at my request, I received Eric Walter White's "Stravinsky" The Composer and his Works" as a birthday present. However, my father managed to get the date wrong again. So the dedication bears the date 24th April. Now, the Stravinsky "River of Music" has moved to the 24th. Is this a curse of some kind?

[Serial_Apologist]

An item of personal trivia: My birth certificate has an authorised correction on it. I was born close to midnight and the date was initially recorded as the 24th, the clock having struck 12 by the time the documentation was filled in. However, someone or other noted the error as the birth certificate was prepared. Some 20 years later, at my request, I received Eric Walter White's "Stravinsky" The Composer and his Works" as a birthday present. However, my father managed to get the date wrong again. So the dedication bears the date 24th April. Now, the Stravinsky "River of Music" has moved to the 24th. Is this a curse of some kind?

"Sympathetic resonance", Bryn, I'd say!