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Description
Stravinsky conceived the idea of a small-scale theatrical work towards the end of the First World War. Collaborating with Swiss writer Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and painter and designer René-Victor Auberjonois, he wrote Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale), derived from a Russian folk tale by Alexander Afanasyev. It is scored for narrator, two speakers and an instrumental septet - 'to be read, played and danced' as there is also a non-speaking dancing rôle. The Faustian morality tale is rendered as a music drama of extraordinary rhythmic charge and gripping power.
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. Part I: Introduction: The Soldier's March
- 2. Part I: This Isn't a Bad Place to Stop...
- 3. Part I Scene 1: Airs By a Stream
- 4. Part I Scene 1: Give Me Your Fiddle...
- 5. Part I Scene 1: The Soldier's March (Reprise)
- 6. Part I Scene 1: Hurray, Here We Are!...
- 7. Part I Scene 2: Pastorale
- 8. Part I Scene 2: The Soldier Looks Up...
- 9. Part I Scene 2: Pastorale (Reprise)
- 10. Part I Scene 2: He Took the Book and Began to Read...
- 11. Part I Scene 3: Airs By a Stream: Just to Stretch Out On the Grass...
- 12. Part I Scene 3: Airs By a Stream
- 13. Part II: The Soldier's March (Reprise): Down a Hot and Dusty Road...
- 14. Part II: Now He Comes to Another Land...
- 15. Part II: Royal March
- 16. Part II: They Gave the Word for the Band to Play...
- 17. Part II: The Little Concert
- 18. Part II: There On Her Bed the Princess Lies...
- 19. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 1. Tango
- 20. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 2. Valse
- 21. Part II: 3 Dances: No. 3. Ragtime
- 22. Part II: The Soldier Holds the Princess Close...
- 23. Part II: The Devil's Dance
- 24. Part II: The Devil's Exhausted...
- 25. Part II: The Little Chorale
- 26. Part II: The Devil's Song: All Right! I Shall Have to Wait...
- 27. Part II: Grand Chorale: You Must Not Seek to Add to What You Have...
- 28. Part II: I Have Everything...
- 29. Part II: Triumphal March of the Devil
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