Abstract
Abstract The first volume in Robert Craft’s planned Musicmasters recording of the complete Stravinsky (01612 67078; two CDs) includes an early warhorse, The Rite of Spring, and Stravinsky’s last major composition, Requiem Canticles, in which Mr. Craft competes against his own prior recording, executed in Stravinsky’s presence. There are three major Neoclassical scores, Oedipus Rex, the Symphony of Psalms, and the Symphony in Three Movements, and three lagniappes, Fanfare for a New Theater for two trumpets, a Fanfare for Three Trumpets originally intended as the opening of Agon, and the Pas de Deux somewhat inexplicably excerpted from Apollo. The orchestra, where there is one, is the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. As a theorist of musical performance, Igor Stravinsky gave early voice to ideas that achieved widespread currency only decades later with the advent of the ‘‘Early Music” movement and its peculiar etiquette.
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