557505 bk Stravinsky 11/27/06 11:11 AM Page 16 Three Japanese Lyrics § Akahito by Akahito Yamanobe, Kokka Taikan No. 1426 (Manyo-shu) Ya belyye tsvety I have flowers of white. V sadu tebye khotela pokazat. Come and see where they grow in my garden. STRAVINSKY No sneg poshol. But falls the snow: Nye razobrat, gdye sneg i gdye tsvety! I know not my flowers from flakes of snow. ¶ Mazatsumi by Masazumi Miyamoto, Kokka Taikan No. 12 Histoire du (Kokin-shu) Vesna prishla. The Spring has come! Soldat (Suite) Iz treshchin ledyanoi kory Through those chinks of prisoning ice the Zaprygali, igraya, v rechkye white floes drift, foamy flakes that sport Pennyya strun. (Pennyye struyi.) and play in the stream. How happily they pass, Oni khotyat byt pervym belym tsvetom first flowers bearing tidings that Spring Renard Radostnoi vesny. is coming. • Tsaraiuki By Tsurayuki Ki no, Kokka Taikan No. 59 (Kokin-shu) Aler • Spears Shto eto beloye vdali! What shimmers so white far away? Po vsyudu, slovno oblaka mezhdu kholmami. Thou would’st say ’twas nought but cloudlet in the Evitts • Pauley midst of hills. To vishni raztsveli: Full blown are the cherries! Prishla zhelannaya vesna. Thou are come, beloved Springtime! Ciesinski • Narucki English translations by Robert Burness Orchestra of © Copyright 1912 by Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd. St. Luke’s Reproduced by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd. Robert Craft 8.557505 16 557505 bk Stravinsky 11/27/06 11:11 AM Page 2 THE ROBERT CRAFT COLLECTION Two Balmont Songs THE MUSIC OF IGOR STRAVINSKY, Vol. 7 Konstantin Balmont (1867-1943) Robert Craft, Conductor ¢ Nezabudochka-Tsvetochek The Flower The Russian Stravinsky, Vol. 1 Nezabudochka tsvetochek The Forget-me-not is blooming 1 Pastorale, Op. 5 (1924) 3:16 Ochen laskovo tsvetyot, All for you, my love, for you, arranged for violin and woodwind quartet by Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin Dlya tebya moi drug, druzhochek By a brook its petals growing, Rolf Schulte, Violin • Stephen Taylor, Oboe • Melanie Feld, Cor Anglais • Charles Neidich, Clarinet Nad voditseyu rastyot. Opening their tender blue. Frank Morelli, Bassoon • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1995 Nad voditsei, nad krinitsei, Then at night when starlight looks Histoire du Soldat Suite (1918) 24:32 Nad vodoyu klyuchevoi, Down on you to shine, 2 The Soldier’s March 1:33 Na zarye s zvezdoi zvezditsei When the dawn breaks night’s last star 3 Music to Scene I 2:33 Govorut: Ty budto moi! Fading seems to say: “Will you be mine?” 4 Music to Scene II (Pastorale) 2:45 5 Royal March (Pasadoble) 2:34 Nezabudochka tsvetochek The Forget-me-not is blooming, 6 Little March 2:54 Nezhno sinenkii glazok Tender eyes so sweet and blue, 7 Three Dances: Tango – Waltz – Ragtime 6:06 Vsyo zovyot tebya druzhochek, Do you hear me lovely flower? 8 The Devil’s Dance 1:19 Slyshish tonkii golosok? Listen to the flower’s voice! 9 Petit/Grand Chorale 2:38 0 Triumphal March of the Devil 2:09 Rolf Schulte, Violin • John Feeney, Double Bass • Frank Morelli, Bassoon • William Blount, Clarinet ∞ Golub The Dove Chris Gekker, Trumpet • Michael Powell, Trombone • Gordon Gottlieb, Percussion Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1995 Golub k teremu pripal. On the windowsill the rose, Kto tam, shto tam podsmotrel? And there on the roof the dove, Three Pieces for Clarinet (1918) 3:55 Golub telom nezhno bel, Do you see them now, oh look, ! I Sempre piano e molto tranquillo: quarter (crotchet) = 52 1:51 Na okontsezh tsvetik al. The dove flying to the rose? @ II Quarter (crotchet) = 168 1:01 # III Quarter (crotchet) = 160 1:03 Belyi golub vorkoval, Red the flower, white the dove, $ Pour Picasso (1917) 0:29 On tsvetochkom zavladel, Red and white together lie, Charles Neidich, Clarinet • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1999 On yevo zacharoval, White and red together love. Nasladilsya, uletel. But then the dove flies away. Pribaoutki (1914) 4:02 % Kornilo 1:02 Akh, ty belyi golubok Oh, my beautiful white dove, ^ Natashka 0:26 Pozabyl ty al tsvetok, You forget my sill above, & Colonel 0:48 Akh, ty belyí golubok, Oh, my beautiful white dove, * The Old Man and the Hare 1:47 Vorotis khot na chasok! Fly back to your waiting love! Catherine Ciesinski, Mezzo-soprano • Members of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (flute, oboe/cor anglais, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, bass) • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1992 English translations by R. C. 8.557505 215 8.557505 557505 bk Stravinsky 11/27/06 11:11 AM Page 14 classical music through a Philharmonia recording, and today audiences can engage with the Orchestra through Berceuses du Chat (1915) 3:45 webcasts, podcasts, downloads, computer games and film scores as well as through its unique interactive music ( I 0:49 education website launched in 2005, The Sound Exchange (www.philharmonia.co.uk/thesoundexchange). In 2005 ) II 0:59 ¡ the Philharmonia became the first ever classical music organization to be shortlisted for a BT Digital Music Award, III 1:10 ™ and in the same year the Orchestra presented both the first ever fully interactive webcast and the first podcast by a IV 0:46 British orchestra. In September 2005 computer games with Philharmonia scores were at No. 1 and No. 2 in the Catherine Ciesinski, Mezzo-soprano • Members of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (3 clarinets) national charts, while the Orchestra’s scores for the last two Harry Potter computer games have both been Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1992 nominated for BAFTA Awards. CD recording and live broadcasting both also continue to play a significant part in the Orchestra’s activities: since 2003 the Philharmonia has enjoyed a major partnership with Classic FM, as The £ Renard: Burlesque in One Act (1916) 17:29 Classic FM Orchestra on Tour, as well as continuing to broadcast on BBC Radio 3. John Aler, Steven Paul Spears, Tenors • David Evitts, Baritone • Wilbur Pauley, Bass Tara O’Connor, Piccolo and Flute • Stephen Taylor, Oboe and Cor Anglais • Alan Kay, Clarinet Robert Craft Frank Morelli, Bassoon • Louis Hanzlik, Trumpet • William Purvis, French Horn I • Daniel Grabois, French Horn II Chris Deane, Cimbalom • Gordon Gottlieb, Timpani • Danny Druckman and Tom Kolor, Percussion Robert Craft, the noted conductor and widely respected writer and critic on music, literature, and culture, holds a Jennifer Frautschi, Violin I • David Bowlin, Violin II • Richard O’Neill, Viola • Fred Sherry, Cello unique place in world music of today. He is in the process of recording the complete works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Kurt Muroki, Double Bass • Recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on January 2nd, 2005 and Webern for Naxos. He has twice won the Grand Prix du Disque as well as the Edison Prize for his landmark recordings of Schoenberg, Webern, and Varèse. He has also received a special award from the American Academy and Two Balmont Songs (1911) 3:15 National Institute of Arts and Letters in recognition of his “creative work” in literature. In 2002 he was awarded the for soprano, piano, string quartet, 2 flutes, and clarinet International Prix du Disque Lifetime Achievement Award, Cannes Music Festival. ¢ The Flower 1:26 Robert Craft has conducted and recorded with most of the world’s major orchestras in the United States, Europe, ∞ The Dove 1:49 Russia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. He is the first American to have conducted Susan Narucki, Soprano • Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble (2 flutes, 2 clarinets (including bass), Berg’s Wozzeck and Lulu, and his original Webern album enabled music lovers to become acquainted with this piano, string quartet) • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, on 19th May, 1997 composer’s then little-known music. He led the world premières of Stravinsky’s later masterpieces: In Memoriam: Dylan Thomas, Vom Himmel hoch, Agon, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Variations, Introitus, and Requiem Three Japanese Lyrics (1913) 3:44 Canticles. Craft’s historic association with Igor Stravinsky, as his constant companion, co-conductor, and musical for soprano, piano, string quartet, 2 flutes, and 2 clarinets confidant, over a period of more than twenty years, contributed to his understanding of the composer’s intentions in the § Akahito 0:50 performance of his music. He remains the primary source for our perspectives on Stravinsky’s life and work. ¶ Mazatsumi 1:06 In addition to his special command of Stravinsky’s and Schoenberg’s music, Robert Craft is well known for his • Tsaraiuki 1:47 recordings of works by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Schütz, Bach, and Mozart. He is also the author of more than two dozen Susan Narucki, Soprano • Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble (2 flutes, 2 clarinets (including bass), books on music and the arts, including the highly acclaimed Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship; The Moment of piano, string quartet) • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, on 19th May, 1997 Existence: Music, Literature and the Arts, 1990–1995; Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers; An Improbable Life: Memoirs; Memories and Commentaries; and the forthcoming “Down a Path of Wonder”: ª Scherzo à la Russe, Original Jazz Band Version (1944) 3:40 On Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Eliot, Auden, and Some Others (2005). He lives in Florida and New York. Orchestra of St. Luke’s • Recorded at SUNY, Purchase, NY, in 1991 º Song of the Volga Boatmen arranged for wind instruments (1917) 1:22 Philharmonia Orchestra • Recorded at Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, in 2001 8.557505 14 3 8.557505 557505 bk Stravinsky 11/27/06 11:11 AM Page 4 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Pastorale • Histoire du Soldat Suite • Three Pieces for Clarinet on many major record labels.