Igor Stravinsky was already a popular and controversial firebrand of the orchestra avant-garde brfore the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps. His score for Diaghilev’s ballet Petrushka was alive with rhythm, colorful orchestration, and modernist music drawing on the sounds of Russian folk music and much fearless dissonance. Le Sacre set off a literal riot, pushing traditional harmony beyond its limits with bitonality, and completely throwing formal conventions to the wind.

Alto is pleased to return Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos’s thrilling recording of both revolutionary Stravinsky scores to the international catalogue.

Igor Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps)

Part I: Adoration of the Earth

• 1 Introduction 3:25
• 2 The Augurs of Spring – Dances of the Young Girls 3:18
• 3 Ritual of Abduction 1:21
• 4 Spring Rounds 3:15
• 5 Ritual of the Rival Tribes 1:51
• 6 Procession of the Sage 0:38
• 7 The Sage 0:19
• 8 Dance of the Earth 1:11

Part II: The Sacrifice

• 9 Introduction 3:58
• 10 Mystic Circles of the Young Girls 2:43
• 11 Glorification of the Chosen One 1:39
• 12 Evocation of the Ancestors 0:42
• 13 Ritual Action of the Ancestors 3:27
• 14 Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) 4:30

Petrushka (1947 edition)

• 15 The Shrove-Tide Fair 7:21
• 16 Danse Russe 2:45
• 17 Petrushka 4:46
• 18 The Blackamoor 3:44
• 19 Valse 3:27
• 20 The Shrove-Tide Fair 1:18
• 21 Wet-Nurses’ Dance 2:32
• 22 Peasant with Bear 1:30
• 23 Gypsies and a Rake Vendor 1:10
• 24 Dance of the Coachmen 1:57
• 25 Masqueraders 1:31
• 26 The Scuffle 0:47
• 27 Death of Petrushka 0:47
• 28 Police and the Juggler 1:16
• 29 Apparition of Petrushka’s Double 2:04