Jazz: Ansermet/Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Part1-4 Videos

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High quality sound: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ogyXBufSYtE&fmt=18================================Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), ballet in 2 parts for orchestraSuisse Romande/Ernest Ansermet================================Parts1&2-41 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1a, "Introduction" 2 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1b, "The Augurs of Spring" - "Dance of the Adolescents" 3 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1c, "Ritual Abduction" 4 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1d, "Spring Round Dances" 5 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1e, "Games of the Rival Tribes" 6 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1f, "Procession of the Wise Elder" 7 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1g, "Adoration of the Earth" - "The Wise Elder" 8 Part I, "Adoration of the Earth", No. 1h, "Dance of the Earth" Parts3&4-4 9 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2a, "Introduction" 10 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2b, "Mystic Circles of the Young Girls" 11 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2c, "Glorification of the Chosen Victim" 12 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2d, "Evocation of the Ancestors" 13 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2e, "Ritual of the Ancestors" 14 Part II, "The Sacrifice", No. 2f, "Sacrificial Dance" Composition and critical receptionAfter coming up with the idea for the piece in 1910 from a fantasy vision of pagan ritual (his fleeting vision of a young girl dancing herself to death) while composing The Firebird,[1] Stravinsky began forming sketches and ideas for the piece, enlisting the help of archaeologist and folklorist Nikolai Roerich. Though he was sidetracked for a year while he worked on Petrushka (which he intended to be a light burlesque as a relief from the orchestrally-intense work already in progress), The Rite of Spring was composed between 1912 and 1913 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Roerich was an integral part of the creation of the work, drawing from scenes of historical rites for inspiration; Stravinsky referred to the work-in-progress as "our child". After undergoing revisions almost up until the very day of its first performance, it was premiered on May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and was conducted by Pierre Monteux. Stravinsky would later write that a better translation to English would have been "The Coronation of Spring".The Ballets Russes staged the first performance. The intensely rhythmic score and primitive scenario—a setting of scenes from pagan Russia—shocked audiences more accustomed to the demure conventions of classical ballet. Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography was a radical departure from classical ballet. Different from the long and graceful lines of traditional ballet, arms and legs were sharply bent. The dancers danced more from their pelvis than their feet, a style that later influenced Martha Graham. Stravinsky would later write in his autobiography of the process of working with Nijinsky on the choreography, stating that "the poor boy knew nothing of music" and that Nijinsky "had been saddled with a task beyond his capacity."[2] While Stravinsky praised Nijinsky's amazing dance talent, he was frustrated working with him on choreography. This frustration was reciprocated by Nijinsky with regard to Stravinsky's patronizing attitude: "...so much time is wasted as Stravinsky thinks he is the only one who knows anything about music. In working with me he explains the value of the black notes, the white notes, of quavers and semiquavers, as though I had never studied music at all...I wish he would talk more about his music for Sacre, and not give a lecture on the beginning theory of music."[3]The complex music and violent dance steps depicting fertility rites first drew catcalls and whistles from the crowd. At the start with the opening bassoon solo, the audience began to boo loudly due to the slight discord in the background notes behind the bassoon's opening melody. There were loud arguments in the audience between supporters and opponents of the work. These were soon followed by shouts and fistfights in the aisles. The unrest in the audience eventually degenerated into a riot. The Paris police arrived by intermission, but they restored only limited order. Chaos reigned for the remainder of the performance, and Stravinsky himself was so upset on account of its reception that he fled the theater in mid-scene, reportedly crying.[4] Fellow composer Camille Saint-Saëns famously stormed out of the première (though Stravinsky later said "I do not know who invented the story that he was present at, but soon walked out, of the premiere."[5]) allegedly infuriated over the misuse of the bassoon in the ballet's opening bars.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_Spring================================ *Note:Support the artist, their families and their legacy by purchasing their music.

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