FULL LES NOCES (Stravinsky) Moscow 2023 Varvara Fedotova, Daria Khozieva, Stanislav Mostovoy, Dmitry Orlov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Les noces or The Wedding, or Svadebka
- Composer: Stravinsky Igor
- Libretto: Igor Stravinsky using Russian wedding lyrics taken mainly from songs collected by Pyotr Kireevsky
- Venue & Opera Company: Zaryadye Hall, Moscow
- Recorded: June 27, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Varvara Fedotova, Daria Khozieva, Stanislav Mostovoy, Dmitry Orlov
- Conductor: Nikolay Azarov
- Orchestra: Ensemble Percarus Group
- Chorus: State Academic Moscow Regional Choir named after A. Kozhevnikov, Academic Choir of Russian Song Radio "Orpheus"
- Chorus Master: Nikolay Azarov
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Zaryadye Hall
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM:
Rachmaninov, Sviridov, Stravinsky
The Russian Evening at the Zaryadye Hall will begin with a performance of Suites for Two Pianos No. 1 and No. 2 by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov. The music of the cycles captivates with the finest sound recording. Each part is a separate picture-mood, painted with the most delicate impressionistic colors.
The evening will continue with “Three Old Songs of the Kursk Province” for a mixed choir and ensemble, created by Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov, a native of the Kursk land. Throughout his creative and life path, the composer maintained a deep connection with his native land. The originality of the Kursk folklore in the cycle is combined with the composer’s own musical language.
Three Russian songs for choir and orchestra by Rachmaninov were written in the 1920s, during the composer’s gradual recovery from the creative crisis caused by emigration. This is a kind of tragic poem, in which the composer put his ardent love for the abandoned homeland, sorrowful reflections on separation and loneliness.
“Wedding”Stravinsky, which will sound at the end of the concert, closes the “Russian period” of Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky’s work (the ballets The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring were created in the same period).
The Wedding, or Svadebka (Russian: Свадебка), is a Russian-language ballet-cantata by Igor Stravinsky scored unusually for four vocal soloists, chorus, percussion and four pianos. Dedicating the work to impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the composer described it in French as “choreographed Russian scenes with singing and music” , and it remains known by its French name of Les noces despite being Russian.
The Wedding was completed in 1917 but was then subjected to a series of changes of heart by Stravinsky regarding its scoring; he settled on the above forces only in 1923, in time for the premiere in Paris on 13 June that year under conductor Ernest Ansermet and danced by the Ballets Russes to choreography by Bronislava Nijinska. Several versions of the score have been performed over the years, substituting an orchestra for the percussion and pianos or using pianolas in accordance with a version Stravinsky abandoned.