Stravinsky: Funeral Song

[Bryn]

Will the modern premier of this 12 minute work lead to an updated Stravinsky: Complete Edition box?

[Beef Oven!]

Bryn, slightly on topic, is the Requiem Canticles in that box?

[Pulcinella]

Bryn, slightly on topic, is the Requiem Canticles in that box?

I'm not Bryn but I can answer: yes, in the London Sinfonietta/Knussen version I have as a single CD.
There are more recorded versions than I had remembered.
(I have the Sony and Naxos Craft versions as well as the Knussen.)

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/47341/Igor-Feodorovich-Stravinsky-Requiem-Canticles

I remember the rather ragged performance at the funeral in Venice: not enough time to rehearse, I suspect.
Or perhaps the occasion got to everyone involved.
But how did I see it?
Was it televised live or recorded and transmitted later, I wonder?

More on topic.....
Bryn: please check the link. It took me to a Virgin mail login!

[Beef Oven!]

Thanks very much Pulcinella. I had no idea there are that many available. Always wondered why Pierre never recorded it - I would have loved that. I’m in the market for a recording of this work. I have the Stravinsky Sony one in the big box, but I’d like another version.

Anybody got any recommendations?

[HighlandDougie]

Thanks very much Pulcinella. I had no idea there are that many available. Always wondered why Pierre never recorded it - I would have loved that. I’m in the market for a recording of this work. I have the Stravinsky Sony one in the big box, but I’d like another version.

Anybody got any recommendations?

Michael Gielen - and you get an excellent performance of Agon thrown in.

[Pulcinella]

Thanks very much Pulcinella. I had no idea there are that many available. Always wondered why Pierre never recorded it - I would have loved that. I’m in the market for a recording of this work. I have the Stravinsky Sony one in the big box, but I’d like another version.

Anybody got any recommendations?

That one is actually conducted by Craft, beefy!

The Naxos one that Craft conducts has Sally Burgess and Roddy Williams as soloists.
Haven't listened to it or the Knussen in a while, so would not know about recommending one over the other.

[Pulcinella]

Michael Gielen - and you get an excellent performance of Agon thrown in.

That looks very appealing indeed!

[Beef Oven!]

Michael Gielen - and you get an excellent performance of Agon thrown in.

By coincidence, I’m actually listening to that on Apple Music! Found it on Qobuz for £7.99. Looks like the favourite.

[Beef Oven!]

That one is actually conducted by Craft, beefy!

The Naxos one that Craft conducts has Sally Burgess and Roddy Williams as soloists.
Haven't listened to it or the Knussen in a while, so would not know about recommending one over the other.

Yes, I sit corrected!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A very engaging six-minute documentarette on the background of the work and how it was recently discovered available via B&H from Mariinsky TV:

https://mariinsky.tv/1067-en

(I hadn't realized, either, what a "stunner" Stravinsky's dad was!)

[Serial_Apologist]

A very engaging six-minute documentarette on the background of the work and how it was recently discovered available via B&H from Mariinsky TV:

https://mariinsky.tv/1067-en

(I hadn't realized, either, what a "stunner" Stravinsky's dad was!)

"A plugin is needed to view this content".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"A plugin is needed to view this content".

Is it?! Apologies - my computer must already be so in-plugged!

See if you can get to it from B&H Quarternotes@

http://mailshots.imagem.com/documents/1407/eQuarterNotes.htm

(scroll down to "featured video" at the bottom pf the "page").

[Serial_Apologist]

Is it?! Apologies - my computer must already be so in-plugged!

See if you can get to it from B&H Quarternotes@

http://mailshots.imagem.com/documents/1407/eQuarterNotes.htm

(scroll down to "featured video" at the bottom pf the "page").

Same result - not to worry, ferney. I see there's an article on Isang Yun listed there: should be interesting!

[Pulcinella]

The new (January 2017) issue of BBC MM tells me that this piece is scheduled to have its UK premiere performance on 19 February, by the Philharmonia under Esa-Pekka Salonen at the RFH.
It will be broadcast later on R3.