Riccardo Chailly

Riccardo Chailly Stravinsky Edition (Exclusive 11CD)

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death, Decca has assembled the complete recordings of Igor Stravinsky made by Riccardo Chailly. These are presented together for the very first time. Chailly has recorded more music by Stravinsky than he has by any other composer. Highlights include a number of radio broadcast recordings with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, four chamber works including Dumbarton Oaks on CD for the very first time and the rediscovered Chant funèbre, the manuscript lost for over a century, that was exclusively recorded for Decca with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra to wide critical acclaim. 30 works in total, arranged chronologically, in a handsome box, with a 100+-page booklet with sung texts, photographs and a complete index, all packaged in a handsome cap box.

TRACK LIST

CD 1
1. Le Faune et la bergère (The Faun and the Shepherdess) Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Live
2. Feu d’artifice (Fireworks) Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin - Live
3. Chant funèbre (Funeral Song) Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Live
Scherzo fantastique Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Live
4. Le Roi des étoiles (The King of the Stars) Rundfunkchor Berlin, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
5. Feu d’artifice (Fireworks) Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Scherzo fantastique Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

CD 2
1. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Renard London Sinfonietta
2. Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Riccardo Chailly

CD 3
1. Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Live
2. Histoire du soldat (Suite) (The Soldier’s Tale) London Sinfonietta
Octet London Sinfonietta
3. Suites I & II London Sinfonietta

CD 4
1. Ragtime for Eleven Instruments *; Divertimento (Suite from Le Baiser de la fée) (The Fairy’s Kiss); Concerto in E-flat Dumbarton Oaks*; Tango for chamber orchestra *; Danses Concertante* London Sinfonietta

CD 5
1. Pulcinella – Complete Ballet Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Psalm Symphony Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin
2. Jeu de cartes (Card Game) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

CD 6
1. Oedipus Rex Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Live
2. Violin Concerto in D Kerr, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Live

CD 7
1. L'Oiseau de feu (Ballet Suite) 1945 version (Firebird) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2. Tango (Orchestral Version) Leipzig Gewandhausorchester - Live
Petrushka (revised 1947 version) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

CD 8
1. Four Norwegian Moods Cleveland Orchestra
2. Le sacre du printemps revised 1947 version (The Rite of Spring) Cleveland Orchestra

CD 9
1. Apollon Musagete (Apollon musagète) (1947 version) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2. Agon Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Live

CD 10-11
1. The Rake’s Progress John Dobson, Astrid Varnay, Matthew Best, Stafford Dean, Samuel Ramey, Sarah Walker, Cathryn Pope, Philip Langridge, London Sinfonietta & Chorus