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| Igor Stravinsky: A Portrait - His Works - His Life | 
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| Creator: I. Stravinsky
Label: Naxos Educational
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 370391
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 636943818626
EAN: 0636943818626
ASIN: B0012CJ76I
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
For the Stravinsky Newcomer, or Even Those Who Think They Already Knew Him March 17, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This portrait of Igor Stravinsky joins those already available on Naxos concerning Bartok Bela Bartok: A Portrait, Prokofiev Sergey Prokofiev: A Portrait and Shostakovich Dmitry Shostakovich: A Portrait. The package contains a 100-page essay on the composer, his life and music, by David Nice, and a two-CD compilation of whole movements from many of his works, such things as Firebird, Petrushka, Rite of Spring, The Soldier's Tale, Les Noces, Pulcinella, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Oedipus Rex, Apollon musagete, Symphony of Psalms, Agon, The Rake's Progress and much more.
The essay by Nice is liberally sprinkled with boldface indications for tracks from the CDs that illustrate the text. So one can be reading about, say, Stravinsky's religious beliefs and be directed to the a movement from the Symphony of Psalms.
The performances of the music, in many instances, could hardly be bettered as many of them are taken from the ongoing Naxos reissues of the recent Robert Craft-conducted recordings. Craft was Stravinsky's amanuensis, friend and 'godson', and is surely the most experienced and respected conductor of Stravinsky currently working. There are also numerous quotations from Craft's voluminous writings on Stravinsky.
Like its counterparts this 'Portrait' is very nicely done and certainly more than worth its bargain price.
Strongly recommended for the appropriate audience. One can easily imagine this set going into school and public libraries as well as into the collections of those curious but not very knowledgeable about one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
Scott Morrison
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