Publicación: 7 de Diciembre.
Narrado y adaptado por Roger Waters de la traduccion de Michael Flanders & Kitty Black,
basado en el texto original de Charles-Ferdinand Ramus.
Grabación: 11 y 12 de Diciembre, 2014.
En: Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Nueva York, U.S.A.
Discográfica: Sony Classical / Music On Vinyl.
N° de catalogo: MOVCL050.
Código de barras: 8719262008625.
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival:
Director artístico: Marya Martin.
Director ejecutivo: Michael Lawrence.
Ingeniero de grabación: Da-Hong Seetoo.
Ingeniería adicional: Paul Pritchard, Abbey Road, Londres; Brody Simpson & Mark McEwan, Underground Recording, Perth, Australia; Max Miglin, MG Studios, Madrid; Thomas Vang, The Village Recording, Copenage.
Mastering: Simon Gibson, Abbey Road, Londres.
Director de arte: Sean Evans.
Fotografía: Kate Izor.
Diseño: Dan Ichimoto.
Producción del set: Clare Spencer.
Productor ejecutivo: Mark Fenwick.
Asistente de productor ejecutivo: Kate Watkins.
Agradecimientos a Gate Cinema, Notting Hill, Ron Delsener, Jonathon Hatfield, Stephanie Silver,
Paul Curran, Chris Organ, Ryan Vince, Chris Butler y James Rushton.
Tracks:
Parte I.
Disco 1.
Lado A.
01 The Soldier's March.
1:47
02 Slogging Homeword...
2:20
03 Airs By A Stream.
2:35
04 As You Can Hear...
7:41
05 The Soldier's March (Reprise).
1:48
06 Eventually, Joseph Reaches His Home Village...
2:55
Lado B.
01 Pastorale.
2:35
02 The Soldier, Disconsolate...
4:13
03 Pastorale (Reprise).
0:37
04 The Soldier, Slowly Coming Back To Himself...
2:48
05 Airs By A Stream (Reprise): To Stretch Out On The Grass...
0:47
06 Hey Satan, You Bastard...
5:33
07 Airs By A Stream (2nd Reprise).
0:46
08 Naught To Be Gained Here...
0:05
Parte II.
Disco 2.
Lado C.
01 The Soldier’s March (2nd Reprise): Down A Hot And Dusty Track...
0:50
02 He Doesn't Even Know Himself...
0:52
03 The Soldier’s March (3rd Reprise): Will He Take The Road To Home...
0:28
04 He Doesn't Have A Home Anymore...
3:56
05 The Royal March.
2:38
06 So, All Was Arranged...
0:58
07 Later That Night...
0:39
08 The Little Concert: Light Floods The Eastern Sky...
2:59
Lado D.
01 The Soldier, With A Confident Air...
0:46
02 Three Dances: Tango (Part 1).
1:18
03 Three Dances: Tango (Part 2).
1:01
04 Three Dances: Waltz & Ragtime.
4:02
05 So, First A Tango...
0:40
06 The Devil's Dance.
1:20
07 The Devil, Confused...
0:27
08 The Little Chorale.
0:42
09 The Devil Recovers Some Of His Wits...
0:13
10 The Devil's Song: Alright! You’ll Be Safe At Home...
0:39
11 Hm, A Fair Warning...
0:13
12 Grand Chorale (Part 1).
0:29
13 Spring, Summer, Autumn...
0:16
14 Grand Chorale (Part 2).
0:30
15 Steady Now...
0:11
16 Grand Chorale (Part 3).
0:27
17 Steady, Just Smell The Flowers...
0:13
18 Grand Chorale (Part 4).
0:52
19 Now I Have Everything...
0:34
20 Grand Chorale (Part 5).
0:55
21 The Princess, All Excited...
1:21
22 Grand Chorale (Part 6).
0:26
23 And So, Off They Go...
1:13
24 Triumphal March Of The Devil.
2:24
Tiempo total: 1 hora, 19 minutos aprox.
Vinyl Long Play - Edición Europa:
Discográfica: Sony Classical / Music On Vinyl.
N° de catalogo: MOVCL050.
Discográfica: Sony Classical / Music On Vinyl.
N° de catalogo: MOVCL050.
Portada.
Contraportada.
Carpeta.
Interior carpeta.
Interior.
Interior.
Etiquetas disco 1, lados 1 y 2.
Interior.
Interior.
Etiquetas disco 2, lados 3 y 4.
Sticker de portada.
Roger Waters:
Narración.
BCMF Musicians:
Stephen Williamson: Clarinete.
Peter Kolkay: Fagot.
David Krauss: Trompeta.
Demian Austin: Trombón.
Colin Jacobsen: Violin.
Donald Palma: Bajo.
Ian David Rosenbaum: Percusión.
Marya Martin, Donald Palma & Roger Waters.
Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale is a solo work by English rock musician Roger Waters, released on 26 October 2018 by Sony Classical Masterworks. It was recorded on 11 to 12 December in 2014 at Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. It is an adaptation of the narration for Igor Stravinsky’s 1918 theatrical work. In 2018, Waters recorded this version with members of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, in which he narrates his adaptation of the story and portrays all characters.
ResponderEliminarOn Friday, October 26, 2018 – shortly before the centenary of the Armistice of WWI on November 11 – Sony Masterworks releases Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale with New Narration Adapted and Performed by Roger Waters, a recording of Stravinsky’s theatrical chamber work by rock legend Waters and seven musicians from the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. This release (available on CD and vinyl LP as well as on download platforms) not only also marks the centenary of the composition of this generally-acknowledged masterpiece, but offers a vibrant new version of the narration by Roger Waters – one that began more than ten years ago with a collaboration between Waters and Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Founder and Artistic Director Marya Martin.
ResponderEliminarThe Soldier’s Tale, or L’Histoire du Soldat, is a 1918 work by Igor Stravinsky with text by Swiss poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz originally written to be “read, played, and danced” by actors, one or more dancers, and seven musicians. Based on Russian folk tales, it tells the story – both through the characters of the soldier, the Devil, and others, and through narration – of a soldier who gives his violin to the Devil in exchange for unlimited wealth, a pact that eventually leads to tragedy for the soldier. While the work has been performed by varying complements of performers in the century since its premiere, it is often presented by a septet of musicians with a narrator, and, when performed in English, using a standard translation by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black.
A friendship leads to a decade-long journey.
Marya Martin, her husband and BCMF Board Chairman Ken Davidson, and Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters met in the Hamptons and became friends in the early 2000s. When Marya decided to program The Soldier’s Tale as part of the 2008 BCMF, she came up with the idea of asking Waters to narrate it. “In addition to being a musical innovator, Roger loves words,” she said. “I knew that his would be a fantastic, and convincing, voice to tell the story.”
For that event, Waters’s first performance of the work, he used the Flanders/Black translation. But he was captivated by the story of the doomed soldier; his grandfather had perished in WWI, and his father had died in combat in WWII when Waters was six months old. He began to adapt the text himself, and in 2014 he and Marya Martin committed to recording the work with his adapted words, with some of the finest musicians performing today: Stephen Williamson, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; David Krauss, trumpet; Demian Austin, trombone; Colin Jacobsen, violin; Donald Palma, bass; and Ian David Rosenbaum, percussion. Six of the same musicians (with Amy Schwartz Moretti replacing Colin Jacobsen) performed the work with Waters at BCMF in 2015.
“Roger has adapted the English text into a version that is quite poetic, and so vivid,” says Marya Martin. His version adds almost 20 minutes, but as Martin says, “he updates the narration into a cohesive story, incorporating the stage directions and using some sound effects, so that he is painting a picture for you. And Roger is a wordsmith; he understands the phrasing of music through words, so his new text is at the same time poetic and musical.” While the main recording took place in 2014, Waters has been updating the text and re-recording fragments of it up until this year.
Waters views the work as Stravinsky, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and WWI, asking, “how can we encourage the possibility of homo sapiens stumbling towards some way of organizing our civilization that doesn’t allow this amount of pain for this number of people?