Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (complete)
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Playing time: 58'02"
Tracks: 29
Booklet pages: 12
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Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (complete) published on 26 August 2016
Fred Child, Narrator Jared McGuire, The Soldier Jeff Biehl, The Devil Tianwa Yang, violin Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players: Ricardo Morales, clarinet Laura Leisring, bassoon David Vonderheide, trumpet R Scott McElroy, trombone Robert W Cross, percussion Christopher White, double bass Pamela Berlin, director JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971):
The Soldier's Tale (1918) (complete, with text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, English version by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black, revised by Pamela Berlin)
Part I 1 Introduction: The Soldier's March 2 Soldier: This isn't a bad place to stop ...
Scene 1 3 Airs by a Stream 4 Devil: Give me your fiddle ... 5 The Soldier's March (reprise) 6 Narrator: Hurray, here we are! ...
Scene 2 7 Pastorale 8 Narrator: The Soldier looks up ... 9 Pastorale (reprise) 10 Narrator: He took the book and began to read ...
Scene 3 11 Airs by a Stream - Narrator: Just to stretch out on the grass ... 12 Airs by a Stream (reprise)
Part II 13 The Soldier's March (reprise) - Narrator: Down a hot and dusty road ... 14 Narrator: Now he comes to another land ... 15 Royal March 16 Narrator: They gave the word for the band to play ... 17 The Little Concert 18 Narrator: There on her bed the Princess lies ...
Three Dances 19 Tango 20 Valse 21 Ragtime
22 Narrator: The Soldier holds the Princess close ... 23 The Devil's Dance 24 Narrator: The Devil's exhausted ... 25 The Little Chorale 26 The Devil's Song - Devil: All right! I shall have to wait ... 27 Grand Chorale - Narrator: You must not seek to add to what you have ... 28 Narrator: I have everything ... 29 Triumphal March of the Devil
Recorded 9 May 2015 at Robin Hixon Theater, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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