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史特拉文斯基:小提琴協奏曲/繆思的領袖阿波羅
詹姆士.艾尼斯 小提琴
安德魯.戴維斯爵士 指揮
BBC愛樂管弦樂團

One of the foremost musicians of his generation, James Ehnes continues to dazzle audiences around the world. Here he joins the BBC Philharmonic and Sir Andrew Davis in a recording of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. Written for the Polish virtuoso Samuel Dushkin, the four-movement work takes the music of Bach as its inspiration, and is built around a chord of the notes D, E, and A, which Stravinsky described as his 'passport to the concerto' and with which the solo violin part opens each movement. Dushkin gave the premiere, conducted by Stravinsky, in Berlin in 1932. Apollon musagete, a ballet in two parts for string orchestra, was written in 1927 – 28, and demonstrates the composer's complete rejection of the Russian folk music and idioms that had been so instrumental in his previous ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka). They are replaced by a concentration on 'pure form', which became known as his neo-classical style. The album is completed by his two orchestral suites – light-hearted music arranged from piano duets he had written in the 1910s – and Scherzo a la russe, a showpiece for the Paul Whiteman band that he composed in the early 1940s when newly arrived in California.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Concerto, K 053 *22:17
1. I Toccata. Tempo crotchet = 96 5:49
2. II Aria I. Tempo crotchet = 116 - Piu mosso - Piu lento - 4:16
3. III Aria II. Tempo quaver = 48 - Poco piu mosso - Tempo I 5:40
4. IV Capriccio. Tempo quaver = 120 - Poco piu tranquillo - 6:14

Subito piu mosso - Presto
5. Scherzo a la russe, K 070 4:01

Suite No. 1, K 045 4:58
6. I Andante. Crotchet = 86 - 92 1:18
7. II Napolitana. Dotted crotchet = 144 1:16
8. III Espanola. Dotted crotchet = 54 1:03
9. IV Balalaika. Crotchet = 144 - 132 1:03

Suite No. 2, K 038 7:08
10. I Marche. Crotchet = 80 1:14
11. II Valse. Dotted minim = 66 - [Trio I] - [Valse] - 2:17
12. III Polka. Crotchet = 96 1:04
13. IV Galop. Crotchet = 126 - Trio - [Galop da capo] 2:17

Apollon musagete, K 048 31:00
14. Naissance d''Apollon. Largo - [Rideau] 5:21
15. Variation d''Apollon (Apollon et les Muses) Quaver = 66 - 3:08
16. Pas a''Action. Apollon et les trois Muses: Calliope, Polymnie et 4:25
17. Variation de Calliope (l''Alexandrin) 1:28
18. Variation de Polymnie. Allegro - 1:20
19. Variation de Terpsichore. Allegretto - 1:35
20. Variation d''Apollon. Lento - 2:23
21. Pas de Deux. Apollon et Terpsichore. Adagio - 4:20
22. Coda (Apollon et les Muses). Vivo - Tempo sostenuto - 3:20
23. Apotheose. Largo e tranquillo 3:36

Total time: 68:28
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Zoe Beyers leader
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
9 February (Violin Concerto, Scherzo a la russe, Suite No. 2)
13 February (other works) 2023