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A critical examination of two piano works by Igor Stravinsky from a performer's point of view, pointing our reflections of 18th-century forms and styles, while indicating some of the transformation brought about by the composer's musical personality. The work develops insights that supplement views of theorists and historians. ... Read more

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Available for the first time in one volume, this collection features 14 piano pieces by Igor Stravinsky. It includes easier works for the intermediate pianist and concert works for the seasoned performer. Contents: Chant du Rossignol * Chorus from the Prologue to 'Boris Godunov' * Les cinq doigts * Four Etudes * Fragment des symphonies pour instruments a vent a la memoire de Achille-Claude Debussy * Piano Rag-Music * Polka * Serenade in A * Sonata * Souvenir d'une marche boche * Tango * Trois mouvements de Petrouchka * Valse * Valse pour les enfants. ... Read more

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Excellent edition
This collection of Stravinsky's piano works is very high quality.The spine breaks gently to allow the pages to lie flat enough to sit properly on the piano's music rack.The paper is bright and smooth, and the type is very clear, sharp, and easy-to-read.And of course, the music is wonderful! ... Read more

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This thoroughly novel, urbane, and entertaining text is a fitting memorial to the historic, week-long, 1972 Stravinsky Festival, celebrated by the New York City Ballet on the 90th anniversary of the composer s birth. In seven evenings, thirty-one ballets (twenty-one made for the occasion) were presented an incredible feat, well worth chronicling. Goldner does that superbly and clearly Choice

Enchanting...the best possible record of what it was like. Dancing Times

(London) Miss Goldner is superb...a real memento.
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Commissioned by Serge Diaghilev, the director of the Ballets Russes, this dazzling piece brought overnight success to its composer. Based on a series of Russian fairy tales, Stravinsky’s modern masterpiece is greatly admired for its brilliant orchestration and harmony, and it remains as popular today as at its 1910 premiere.
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Essential Reference
This 112 page book is number 43 in the English National Operaseries of opera guides.Unlike most of in the series, this guidecovers two operas -- the two large scale vocal/stage works of IgorStravinsky.The Rake's Progress is generally regarded as one of the few 20th century operas that has found its way into the standard repertory.

As in the other guides in this series, this book is a compilation of essays and writings by several different people and the reader's general familiarity with the works under consideration is assumed.There is no straightforward synopsis of either of the works discussed in this volume although some of the essays provide at least a partial plot synopsis.Rather, in addition to the complete libretto and English translation of the libretto, the essays discuss historical or analytical features of the works.

The major piece on Oedipus Rex is an essay by David Rice titled "The Person of Fate and the Fate of the Person: Stravinsky's 'Oedipus Rex.'" Also included is an appreciation of the work by the composer Judith Weir, a personal history of the work by Jean Cocteau, the librettist, and a thematic catalogue.

For The Rake's Progress, two major essays are included: one discussing the historical events that led to the writing of the libretto; and, the second discussing the opera's use of classical forms and gestures.The complete libretto is included as well as a verse prologue written by the librettists, W.H.Auden and Chester Kallman, for a 1958 television broadcast of the opera's last five scenes.A bibliography and selected discography is included for both operas.END ... Read more