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Publicación: 9 de Noviembre, 2018.
Discográfica: Sony Classical.
N° de catalogo: 19075872732.
Código de barras: 1 90758 72732 5.
Tracks:
Part I.
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
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
07 Pastorale.
2:35
08 The Soldier, Disconsolate...
4:13
09 Pastorale (Reprise).
0:37
10 The Soldier, Slowly Coming Back To Himself...
2:48
11 Airs By A Stream (Reprise): To Stretch Out On The Grass...
0:47
12 Hey Satan, You Bastard...
5:33
13 Airs By A Stream (2nd Reprise).
0:46
14 Naught To Be Gained Here...
0:05
2:35
08 The Soldier, Disconsolate...
4:13
09 Pastorale (Reprise).
0:37
10 The Soldier, Slowly Coming Back To Himself...
2:48
11 Airs By A Stream (Reprise): To Stretch Out On The Grass...
0:47
12 Hey Satan, You Bastard...
5:33
13 Airs By A Stream (2nd Reprise).
0:46
14 Naught To Be Gained Here...
0:05
Part II.
15 The Soldier’s March (2nd Reprise): Down A Hot And Dusty Track...
0:50
16 He Doesn't Even Know Himself...
0:52
17 The Soldier’s March (3rd Reprise): Will He Take The Road To Home...
0:28
28 He Doesn't Have A Home Anymore...
3:56
19 The Royal March.
2:38
20 So, All Was Arranged...
0:58
21 Later That Night...
0:39
22 The Little Concert: Light Floods The Eastern Sky...
2:59
23 The Soldier, With A Confident Air...
0:46
24 Three Dances: Tango (Part 1).
1:18
25 Three Dances: Tango (Part 2).
1:01
26 Three Dances: Waltz & Ragtime.
4:02
27 So, First A Tango...
0:40
28 The Devil's Dance.
1:20
29 The Devil, Confused...
0:27
30 The Little Chorale.
0:42
31 The Devil Recovers Some Of His Wits...
0:13
32 The Devil's Song: Alright! You’ll Be Safe At Home...
0:39
33 Hm, A Fair Warning...
0:13
34 Grand Chorale (Part 1).
0:29
35 Spring, Summer, Autumn...
0:16
36 Grand Chorale (Part 2).
0:30
37 Steady Now...
0:11
38 Grand Chorale (Part 3).
0:27
39 Steady, Just Smell The Flowers...
0:13
40 Grand Chorale (Part 4).
0:52
41 Now I Have Everything...
0:34
42 Grand Chorale (Part 5).
0:55
43 The Princess, All Excited...
1:21
44 Grand Chorale (Part 6).
0:26
45 And So, Off They Go...
1:13
46 Triumphal March Of The Devil.
2:24
Tiempo total: 1 hora, 19 minutos aprox.
0:46
24 Three Dances: Tango (Part 1).
1:18
25 Three Dances: Tango (Part 2).
1:01
26 Three Dances: Waltz & Ragtime.
4:02
27 So, First A Tango...
0:40
28 The Devil's Dance.
1:20
29 The Devil, Confused...
0:27
30 The Little Chorale.
0:42
31 The Devil Recovers Some Of His Wits...
0:13
32 The Devil's Song: Alright! You’ll Be Safe At Home...
0:39
33 Hm, A Fair Warning...
0:13
34 Grand Chorale (Part 1).
0:29
35 Spring, Summer, Autumn...
0:16
36 Grand Chorale (Part 2).
0:30
37 Steady Now...
0:11
38 Grand Chorale (Part 3).
0:27
39 Steady, Just Smell The Flowers...
0:13
40 Grand Chorale (Part 4).
0:52
41 Now I Have Everything...
0:34
42 Grand Chorale (Part 5).
0:55
43 The Princess, All Excited...
1:21
44 Grand Chorale (Part 6).
0:26
45 And So, Off They Go...
1:13
46 Triumphal March Of The Devil.
2:24
Tiempo total: 1 hora, 19 minutos aprox.
Compact Disc - Edición Europa:
Discográfica: Sony Classical.
N° de catalogo: 19075872732
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Notas del disco:
IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ THE SOLDIER’S TALE ~
NARRATED BY ROGER WATERS
BCMF Musicians
Stephen Williamson - Clarinet
Peter Kolkay - Bassoon
David Krauss - Trumpet
Demian Austin - Trombone
Colin Jacobsen - Violin
Donald Palma - Bass
Ian David Rosenbaum - Percussion
Recorded at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, December 11-12, 2014.
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (BCMF)
Marya Martin - Artistic Director
Michael Lawrence - Executive Director
Da-Hong Seetoo - Recording Engineer
Additional Engineering:
Paul Pritchard - Abbey Road, London
Brody Simpson & Mark McEwan - Underground Recording, Perth, Western Australia
Max Miglin - MG Studios, Madrid
Thomas Vang, The Village Recording, Copenhagen
Simon Gibson - Abbey Road, London - Mastering
Sean Evans - Art Director
Kate Izor - Photography
Dan Ichimoto - Design
Clare Spencer - Set Production
Mark Fenwick - Executive Producer
Kate Watkins - Assistant Executive Producer
Thank you to Gate Cinema, Notting Hill, Ron Delsener, Jonathon Hatfield, Stephanie Silver,
Paul Curran, Chris Organ, Ryan Vince, Chris Butler and James Rushton.
IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ THE SOLDIER’S TALE ~
WITH LIBRETTO ADAPTED BY ROGER WATERS FROM THE TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL FLANDERS
AND KITTY BLACK. NARRATED BY ROGER WATERS, BASED ON THE ORIGINAL
TEXT BY CHARLES-FERDINAND RAMUZ.
Publisher - Chester Music Ltd (part of the Music Sales Group) C1924/2018 Chester Music Ltd. With Kind Permission of the Estates of Igor Stravinsky
and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. P&C2018 Roger Waters Music Overseas Ltd under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment.
Rock legend Roger Waters has adapted the narration and recorded Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale where he narrates the whole of this harrowing modern fairy tale himself. Click here to listen, download or stream.
ResponderEliminarWhen the Devil and the Soldier argue towards the end of the opening section of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, the eavesdropper may well feel a very real sense of fear. Roger Waters articulates this violent dispute with so much energy and cold fury, building from climax to climax and thrillingly working himself up into such a rage, that we suddenly sympathize with the drama of the ordinary man who wants too much and who risks too much. In short, this rock star is an outstanding narrator – the founder of Pink Floyd speaks all three roles in Stravinsky’s piece of music theatre: the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator.
The Soldier’s Tale is a disturbing and implacably modern fairytale and at the same time an anti-war piece. It also marks a turning point in Stravinsky’s output. By 1917 the native of St Petersburg was already a star: for years he had been a regular visitor to Paris, his ballets had caused a sensation and he had been acclaimed as a pianist and as a conductor. But the First World War left its mark on the world of music. It was at this juncture that Stravinsky wrote The Soldier’s Tale – its original title is Histoire du Soldat. It is scored for an ensemble of seven musicians: violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, percussion and a small cornet à pistons that is often replaced by a trumpet. The result is an unusual work that combines extreme interiority on the one hand with a gripping sense of drama and remarkable expressivity on the other.
Stravinsky has always been a disputed figure in the world of classical music. He was a provocative composer. Audiences have invariably found him controversial, but so too have a number of thinkers. Adorno, for example, felt that he was backward-looking, while also being fascinated by him. By 1917 Stravinsky has already acquired all the hallmarks of his style: a characteristic melodic thrift, experimentation with complex rhythms and harmonic boldness. Yet throughout all of this, he never entirely abandoned the language of classical music.
And yet we rarely hear The Soldier’s Tale, with the result that with Roger Waters’ new project a modern classic is rediscovered, a work which because of its particular design as a piece for chamber ensemble and narrator is all too rarely seen in major houses. The Soldier’s Tale may be regarded as the nucleus of Stravinsky’s early period. In the third section of Part One, for example, the composer quotes his own Rite of Spring, while elsewhere there are echoes of Petrushka and The Firebird.
The words are by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, who availed himself of a number of Russian fairytales when writing it. The plot is more or less as follows. A soldier has ten day’s leave – we are given no further details about the army to which he belongs – and so he returns home, playing his violin as he goes. The Devil appears and offers him a deal, exchanging his violin for a book intended to make him rich. This is indeed what happens, but of course the man does not find happiness through the enchanted book.
Waters deliberately uses a British accent, investing the spoken narrative with a refreshing, earthy note. It is astonishing how well this works: here is a simple soldier speaking with a southern English accent. We hear an artisan talking, someone who brings with him the natural scepticism of the underdog but who in spite of this falls into an insidious trap. Waters then switches seamlessly to a markedly restrained narrative tone – and time and again he conjures up the figure of the artful Devil. As the Narrator he treats the text in an entirely natural way, bringing lots of life to it....
This project is more than a foray into the field of high art. For years Roger Waters has been far more than just the frontman for Pink Floyd. His first work outside the world of rock music was the opera Ça ira, which was first performed in 2005 and which combines an astonishing atonality with a Neoclassicism in the style of a composer like Benjamin Britten. Both here and in other works Waters certainly feels an affinity with this moment in the history of music whenever he has to decide how atonal to make his music. How radical should it be? And how is music related to the Classical and Romantic tradition? This is arguably the most important question that progressive music has to ask itself today. This was also Stravinsky’s question when he wrote The Soldier’s Tale.
EliminarThe fact that Roger Waters has recorded this work in particular is no accident, for there are personal reasons for his choice. In the first place he has wanted for a long time to engage more deeply with the work of a composer whose weight and occasional inaccessibility may perhaps have much in common with the music of the singer and bass player from Surrey. And in the second place the two world wars have left their mark on Waters’ family, too – he lost his father in the Second World War, while one of his grandfathers was killed in the First.
The seven musicians with whom this recording was made are all associated with the prestigious Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. They play precisely and clearly, mastering a classic that is only apparently easy. The music itself is complex, Stravinsky working with echoes of cabaret music and light music but often changing his time-signatures and introducing passages of bitonality at certain points in the score, where two keys clash with one another. This serves to underscore the crude grotesqueness of the narrative, while ultimately also providing this story about war with its admonitory character. This is a work which even today is intended to rouse its listeners out of their complacency. Roger Waters has brought it to life with total commitment and dedication.