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The first edition of Stravinsky s Complete works ever. Comprising Stage Works (Ballets, Operas, Oratorio), Orchestral, Choral, Solo Vocal, Chamber, Piano, Historical s. Performed by an array of great Stravinsky interpreters including Abbado, Ashkenazy, Bernstein, Bostridge, Boulez, Chailly, Craft, Gardiner, Knussen, the Labèques, Langridge, Levine, Maisky, Mustonen, Mutter, Nagano, Pletnev, Pollini, Sacher, Shelton, Terfel. Plus....Stravinsky himself, conducting a 1935 of his Violin Concerto. Bonus CD: Argerich and Barenboim dazzle with The Rite of Spring New s of four delightful miniatures (vocal / piano) 150-page booklet (English, French, German) with Foreword by Roger Wright. Synopses of operas and ballets available as a download. CD 1 12 Stage Works Here you get all the famous ballets, from Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring (all Boulez s), through Pulcinella (Abbado) Apollon musagète (Chailly) to Agon, the operas from The Nightingale (Boulez) to The Rake s Progress (Gardiner) and idiosyncratically Stravinskian works like Renard (Chailly), Les Noces (Bernstein) and Mavra (Rozhdestvensky) as well as Oedipus Rex (Philip Langridge under James Levine), and rarities like Persephone and Orpheus CD 13 18 Orchestral Music Starting with the almost traditional Symphony no. 1 in E flat (Pletnev), these six CDs bear witness to Stravinsky s incredible stylistic transformation with a rich array of neo-classical works (3 CDs) including the Symphony in C and the Symphony in 3 Movements, delightful miniatures like the two Suites for small orchestra, the concertante works for piano and violin, the jazzy Ebony Concerto and Tango, the hilarious Greeting Prelude written for Pierre Monteux s 80th birthday you ve never heard Happy Birthday to You like this before and the ascetic later works. Rounded off by revised versions (Suites) from Firebird and Petrushka. CD 19 21 Choral Music Three CDs of choral music comprising famous works like the Symphony of Psalms (Gardiner) and Mass (Bernstein), but also many rarities: short Russian sacred works, Babel, Threni (Robert Craft), A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (Robert Craft) that repay closer listening. CD 22 23 Solo Vocal A fascinating sequence of songs (with Lucy Shelton and John Constable) from Stravinsky s earliest period, many presented in the original voice and piano versions as well as later arrangements for voice and chamber ensemble (soloists like Ann Murray and John Shirley-Quirk under Pierre Boulez), ending with The Owl and the Pussy-Cat from 1966. This section also includes what may be a world-premiere of the short Hommage à Nadia Boulanger, written for her 70th birthday in 1947, sung by two American singers from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Heide Stober and Ronnita Millar. CD 24 25 Chamber Music Beside original chamber works the great Octet and Septet, for example there are many popular works arranged from ballets that are regularly played in concert: the Suite italienne (in the cello and piano version, with Maisky and Argerich), The Soldier s Tale Concert Suite and the Divertimento from The Fairy s Kiss. CD 26 27 Piano Music Here, alongside Maurizio Pollini s unrivalled account of the Three Movements from Petrushka , we have excellent performances of neo-classical works like the Sonata and the Serenade in A by the French pianist Marie-Francoise Bucquet. CD 28 29 Historical s The Violin Concerto with Dushkin and Stravinsky mentioned above, and The Soldier s Tale with Jean Cocteau as Narrator conducted by Igor Markevitch; plus two classic accounts of early ballets from Ansermet and Monteux. CD 30 Bonus Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim making sparks fly in the pian duet arrangement of The Rite of Spring. Review ------ I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me rtunities that all of human genius will never exhaust --Igor Stravinsky