Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
Classical new release - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution
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Label: Bel Air Classiques<br />
File Under: <strong>Classical</strong>/Ballet &<br />
Dance<br />
Catalogue No: BAC241<br />
Barcode: 3760115302419<br />
NORMAL Price<br />
Format: 1 DVD<br />
Packaging: cd book<br />
The Chosen One: Alexandra Iosifidi<br />
300-Year-Old Woman: Elena Bazhenova<br />
Shaman: Vladimir Ponomarev<br />
The Firebird: Ekaterina Kondaurova<br />
Ivan Tsarevich: Ilya Kuznetsov<br />
The Princess of Great Beauty: Marianna<br />
Pavlova<br />
Kashchei the Immortal: Vladimir Ponomarev<br />
Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet<br />
Music Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev<br />
STRAVINSKY: Rite of Spring, Firebird<br />
Stravinsky & the Ballets Russes, 100th anniversary collector's edition<br />
Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet<br />
Valery Gergiev<br />
RELEASE DATE<br />
3RD JUNE 2013<br />
In celebration of the creation of 'Le Sacre du printemps' in Paris in 1913, Bel Air present a <strong>new</strong> edition in a DVD-book of<br />
a wonderful Stravinsky night at the Mariinsky with the original Nijinsky version of the 'Rite of Spring' and 'The Firebird'<br />
both conducted by Valery Gergiev.<br />
The premiere of 'The Rite of Spring' at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Paris, on May 1913 caused a veritable scandal.<br />
The audience was shocked by the primitive violence of the ballet. It was so radically rejected that the ballet was taken off<br />
after eight performances. Although long forgotten, thanks to the relentless work of Millicent Hodson, Nijinsky’s original<br />
choreography was recreated.<br />
'The Firebird' is a Russian folk tale in two scenes commissioned from the young Stravinsky by Diaghilev and premiered<br />
at the Paris Opera House in 1910. The ballet was an immediate success. The Ballets Russes enabled the choreographer<br />
Fokine to bring to this enterprise the right amount of novelty needed to captivate but not alienate the audience. It was a<br />
total success.<br />
THE RITE OF SPRING<br />
choreography after Vaslav Nijinsky (1913), scenery, set, costumes: Igor Stravinsky and Nicholas Roerich, reconstructed<br />
and staged by Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer, lighting: Vladimir Lukin<br />
THE FIREBIRD<br />
choreography & libretto: Michel Fokine (1910), reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa, set and costume design:<br />
Anna and Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches by Alexander Golovin, Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine<br />
CONTENTS: DVD BOOK, 2 ballets 85 min.<br />
Bonus: Documentary on the Ballets Russes (8 min), interviews with Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer (30 min), 36pp<br />
illustrated in 3 languages<br />
Format: Colour, 16/9, NTSC, Sound: PCM Stereo - Dolby Digital 5.1.<br />
*****/*****/***** BBC Music Magazine<br />
Times <strong>Classical</strong> DVD of the Week<br />
Winner, BBC Music Magazine Award 2010 [BAC041, 441 BD]
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