Robert Craft

Stravinsky the Composer, Volume IX: The Firebird

Featuring
Release date 1997

Tracklist

1
Fireworks (1908)
4:02
4:02
2
The Firebird, Scene I: Introduction
2:30
2:30
3
The Firebird, Scene I: Night. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden
1:40
1:40
4
The Firebird, Scene I: The Firebird Enters, pursued by Ivan Tsarevich
2:16
2:16
5
The Firebird, Scene I: The Firebird's Dance
1:19
1:19
6
The Firebird, Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird
0:55
0:55
7
The Firebird, Scene I: The Firebird begs to be Released
5:26
5:26
8
The Firebird, Scene I: Entrance of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses
2:17
2:17
9
The Firebird, Scene I: The Princesses play with the golden apples (Scherzo)
2:31
2:31
10
The Firebird, Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich appears
0:58
0:58
11
The Firebird, Scene I: The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)
4:36
4:36
12
The Firebird, Scene I: Daybreak
1:28
1:28
13
The Firebird (1910): Ivan Tsarevich, entering Kastchei's palace, sets off its Magic Carillion, thereby alerting Kastchei's Monster-Guardians, who capture him
1:34
1:34
14
The Firebird, Scene I: The entrance of Kastchei the Immortal
1:08
1:08
15
The Firebird, Scene I: Dialogue between Kastchei and Ivan Tsarevich
1:03
1:03
16
The Firebird, Scene I: The Princesses plead for mercy
1:05
1:05
17
The Firebird, Scene I: The Firebird enters
0:34
0:34
18
The Firebird, Scene I: Dance of Kastchei's retinue under the Firebird's magic spell
0:49
0:49
19
The Firebird, Scene I: Infernal Dance of Kastchei and his subjects under the Firebird's magic spell
4:38
4:38
20
The Firebird, Scene I: The Firebird's Lullaby
2:28
2:28
21
The Firebird, Scene I: Kastchei awakens
1:08
1:08
22
The Firebird, Scene I: Kastchei's death
1:20
1:20
23
The Firebird (1910): Scene II: Kastchei's spell is broken, his palace disappears, and the Petrified Knights return to life. General Thanksgiving. The marriage and coronation of Prince Ivan as Tsar and of the Princess of Unearthly Beauty as Tsarina
2:56
2:56
24
Canon for Orchestra on a Russian Popular Tune (1965)
0:50
0:50
25
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): I. Dance
0:53
0:53
26
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): II. Eccentric
2:11
2:11
27
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): III. Canticle
3:56
3:56
28
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): IV. Madrid
2:36
2:36
29
Variations (1964)
5:49
5:49
30
Concerto for Strings in D (1946): I. Vivace
5:51
5:51
31
Concerto for Strings in D (1946): II. Arioso Andantino
2:41
2:41
32
Concerto for Strings in D (1946): III. Rondo Allegro
3:34
3:34