NAXOS STRAVINSKY: Petrushka • Song of the Nightingale 8.571222

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Introduction March Chinese of the Nightingale Song of the Mechanical Game 3:24 11:42 The Song of the Nightingale The Song of the Nightingale (Le Chant du rossignol) 5 21:01 6 7 8 Nightingale Igor (1882-1971) 4:24 7:01 35:59 Booklet notes: Paul Schiavo at the Seattle Center Opera House, USA Previously released on Delos International STRAVINSKY Inlay photo of Gerard Schwarz by Ben VanHouten is a brilliantly orchestrated symphonic symphonic orchestrated is a brilliantly of the Nightingale Song Stravinsky’s Joanna Nickrenz (Song of the Nightingale) • Recording Engineer: John M. Eargle Executive Producer: Amelia S. Haygood • Recording Producers: Adam Stern (Petrushka), Executive Producer: Amelia S. Haygood • Recording Producers: Song of the Nightingale) (Song of the Nightingale) • Production Associate: Phyllis Bernard ( Song of the Nightingale) Recorded on 4 & 5 January 1988 (Petrushka); 20 & 21 October 1986 ( ) • Associate Engineer: Al Swanson Assistant Engineers: Al Swanson, Laura Wirthlin (Petrushka Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz Seattle Symphony Cell Petrushka’s Cell The Moor’s (evening) Fair Shrove-Tide The 14:24 Fair Shrove-Tide The 10:10 Song of the Nightingale) Publishers: Kalmus reprint (Petrushka); Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd ( Petrushka (1911, revised 1947) revised Petrushka (1911, Burlesque in A Scenes Four 2 3 4 1 Paris was one of the great centres of European art, and Sergey Dyagilev and his his and Dyagilev Sergey and art, of European centres great of the one was Paris that productions epoch-shattering of a succession city the to brought russes Ballet Stravinsky Diaghilev, for of Spring Rite The composing Whilst ballet. revolutionised brought suddenly puppet of a , the story to write Petrushka off its composition broke one It remains title role. danced the and Nijinsky by Fokin was Choreography to life. opera II of his Acts I and music from Using ballets. greatest twentieth century’s of the , Le rossignol of the Orient. and the allure evoking Chinese music poem, richly

NAXOS STRAVINSKY: Petrushka • Song of the Nightingale 8.571222