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The AGP
celebrates its centenary with a collection of Igor Stravinsky's
earliest neo-classical chamber compositions. I'm actually not a huge
Stravinsky fan, but I do love these pieces, and particularly the Suite
Italienne for cello and piano. Like track 02, which is scored for
violin and piano, this suite was taken from Stravinsky's ballet
Pulcinella, which is in turn based on themes by the baroque Italian
composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. The version for violin and piano
is largely the same, but includes a somewhat different selection of
movements.
Pulcinella was completed in 1920 (though Stravinsky's arrangements
included here were done in 1933), and all of the other works in this
installment date from 1918-1923. This period includes Stravinsky's last
works in his Russian style and his first neo-classical works. All of
the pieces included in this installment are available on CD in other
recordings, but I know of no other collection that brings together so
many works from this pivotal period in Stravinsky's development. And
the recordings of his Suites Italienne tend to be on cello and violin
miscellany CDs, rather on CDs devoted to Stravinsky.
The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from
the several LPs from which these works were transcribed. The first
seven tracks will fit on one CD. You'll have to find some other place
to put track 08.
To download
AGP100 files, right-click on each of the following links and select
SAVE
LINK AS.
01 - Suite Italienne
(Cello), 1920/1933 [17:50]
02 - Suite Italienne
(Violin), 1920/1933 [17:01]
03 - Ragtime for Eleven Instruments,
1918 [4:30]
04 - Symphonies for Wind
Instruments, 1920/1947 [8:39]
05 - Concertino
for String Quartet, 1920 [6:35]
06 - Concertino
for Twelve Instruments, 1920/1952 [6:30]
07 - Octet, 1923 [14:59]
08 - Three
Pieces for Solo Clarinet, 1918 [4:05]
Liner
notes from LPs
AGP100
description
FLAC fingerprints
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