Klaus Mäkelä & Orchestre de Paris – Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps / Rite of Spring (UHQCD)

Klaus Mäkelä, born in 1996, is one of the most respected conductors of our time despite his young age: Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic since 2020, Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris since 2021 and Chief Conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 2027/28; to name just a few big names from his CV. With his Paris orchestra he is entrusted on this recording with two works by Igor Stravinsky, the century-old „Le sacre du printemps” and the „L’Oiseau de feu”, the Firebird, in the 1911 version.

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Lista pieselor

Le Sacre du Printemps (Original Version)

1. Introduction

2. Les augures printaniers – Danses des adolescentes

3. Jeu du rapt

4. Rondes printanières

5. Jeux des cités

6. Cortège du sage – Le sage

7. Embrasse de la terre

8. Danse de la terre

Le Sacre du Printemps (Original Version: Pt. 2: Le Sacrifice)

9. Introduction

10. Cercles mysteriéux des adolescentes

11. Glorification d’élue

12. Évocation des ancêtres

13. Action rituelle des ancêtres

14. Danse sacrale: l’élue

The Firebird

15. Introduction (Ballet)

16. Kashchei’s enchanted garden (Ballet)

17. Appearance of the Firebird pursued by Ivan Tsarevich (Ballet)

18. Dance of the Firebird (Ballet)

19. Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird (Ballet)

20. Supplication of the Firebird (Ballet)

21. Appearance of the thirteen enchanted Princesses (Ballet)

22. Game of the Princesses with the golden apples (Ballet)

23. Sudden appearance of Ivan Tsarevich (Ballet)

24. Round dance of the Princesses (Ballet)

25. Daybreak (Ballet)

26. Magic carillon, appearance of Kashchei’s guardian monsters and capture of Ivan Tsarevich (Ballet)

27. Arrival of Kashchei (Ballet)

28. Intercession of the Princesses (Ballet)

29. Dance of Kashchei’s retinue under the spell of the Firebird (Ballet)

30. Infernal dance of all Kashchei’s subject’s (Ballet)

31. Lullaby of the Firebird (Ballet)

32. Kashchei’s awakening (Ballet)

33. Collapse of Kashchei’s palace and dissolution of all enchantments – Reanimation of the petrified prisoners – General

Artist	Klaus Mäkelä & Orchestre de Paris
Format	UHQCD
Gen muzical	Muzică clasică