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The Symphony in C was conceived in Paris in the late 1930s, but completed in America in 1940, and is dedicated to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premièred in 1946, the Symphony in Three Movements presents us with movements that also manifest different ways of moving: a march, a slow dance, and a march-jog-race. The Greeting Prelude was written as an eightieth birthday tribute to Pierre Monteux, conductor of the premières of Pétrouchka and The Rite of Spring, and was first performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the very day: 4 April 1955. The other two pieces on the album reflect Stravinsky’s lifelong involvement with ballet. The Divertimento is an orchestral piece extracted by Stravinsky from his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss. The ballet was a homage to Tchaikovsky, based on songs and piano pieces by him, stitched together and orchestrated with Stravinskian cool. The Circus Polka was a commission from Stravinsky’s long-time collaborator George Balanchine, who had been asked by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to create a dance for elephants. The version heard here is the composer’s own orchestral version; the original was scored for circus band and organ by David Raksin, and performed by fifty elephants and fifty female dancers! Recorded in Surround Sound and available as a Hybrid SACD
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Reviews
“This album is immediately seductive. Even though the ‘Greeting Prelude’ is only 55 seconds, Andrew Davis delivers it with full-voiced energy in Chandos’s full-range, resonant, embracing sound, rich from treble to bass. The stereo spread adds breath to depth. I feel like I have the best seat in the concert hall…”
Gil French – American Record Guide – May/June 2023
**** Excellent Album
Thomas Deschamps – Classica magazine (France) – May 2023
“It’s easy to underestimate the depth and breadth of Andrew Davis’s repertoire and indeed his sterling qualities as a conductor – his ebullience, robust sense of rhythm and razor-sharp ears. All of which are much in evidence in this generous compendium of Stravinsky…”
Edward Seckerson – Gramophone magazine – January 2023
Recommended
“…These are excellent performances… Let’s have more Stravinsky from this team.”
Stephen Barber – MusicWeb-International.com – 4 January 2022
Recording of the Month
Performance ***** Recording *****
“These performances are guaranteed to keep the listener riveted from first bar to the last.”
Erik Levi – BBC Music magazine – January 2023
“… The music demonstrates Stravinsky at his most original and individualistic, whatever one may think of him; the work of a great and original genius is here set before us in performances that cannot, in any possible regard be improved upon. This is magisterial interpretative insight on behalf of Andrew Davis, consistently so, and the orchestral playing is – well, I’ve already said it!” *****
Robert Matthew-Walker – Musical Opinion Quarterly – October-December 2022
Editor’s Choice – January 2023
“…This is a well-played and extremely well recorded disc, and musically polished …” ****
Phillip Scott – Limelight.com.au – 14 December 2022
Performance ***** Sonic (Multichannel) *****
“… this is one of the most desirable Stravinsky releases I have heard for some considerable time.”
Graham Williams – HRAudio.net – 6 November 2022
“…there were late works which recaptured the energy and vivacity of Stravinsky’s earlier music, notably the remarkable Symphony in Three Movements, and it’s particularly engaging here in this new performance from the BBC Philharmonic under Sir Andrew Davis, couched in impeccable Chandos surround sound. Particularly important in the Stravinsky piece is the concertante piano part, and here that registers with all the ear-tingling vitality that is so necessary. The other pieces are given equally persuasive readings…”
Barry Forshaw – cdchoice.co.uk – 29 November 2022
“… With superior Chandos sound, capturing persuasive, energetic and uplifting performances, this should be on the shelf of any serious Stravinsky collector.”
David A McConnell – theclassicreview.com – 21 November 2022
“…A very beautiful disc, generous in timing and superbly recorded, which imposes itself at the heights of the discography.”
Pierre Jean Tribot – Crescendo-magazine.be – 21 November 2022
Recommended
“An outstanding programme, superlatively played and recorded.”
Roy Westbrook – MusicWeb-International.com – 17 November 2022
Record of the Month
“…fabulous incident-packed and detail-studded performances, superb sound … stellar Stravinsky release, of profoundly rewarding musical purpose and illumination …”
Colin Anderson – ColinsColumn.com – 23 October 2022
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