Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919), Ravel: Bolero, by Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano

Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919), Ravel: Bolero

by Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano

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1.	Stravinsky : Ne vesiolaïa... (Russian Folk Song) 01:32	buy track
2.	Stravinsky : Première partie. Premier tableau : La tresse (Chez la mariée) - 1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey 05:00	buy track
3.	Stravinsky : Première partie. Deuxième tableau : Chez le marié - 1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey 05:28	buy track
4.	Stravinsky : Première partie. Troisième tableau : Le départ de la mariée - 1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey 02:56	buy track
5.	Stravinsky : Deuxième partie. Quatrième tableau : Le repas de noces - 1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey 10:13	buy track
6.	Ravel : Bolero (Arranged for Solo Voices, Choir, Cymbaloms, Harmonium, Pianola and Percussion by Robin Melchior) 15:41	buy track

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In 1914 Stravinsky was more than ever taken up by his interest in pagan Russia and its folk rituals. He worked on the composition of Les Noces, intended for the Ballets Russes, until 1923. These “choreographed scenes with music and voices” represent, in four tableaux, the Russian folk wedding ritual. Sober, stylised, razor-sharp, Stravinsky’s music combines rhythmic brutality with an incantatory force, evoking both the timelessness and the inexorability of that ritual. There were several attempts at different instrumentations of the work. Here Mathieu Romano, the Ensemble Aedes and Les Siècles present the world premiere recording of the full 1919 version (completed in 2007 by Theo Verbey), written for an ensemble of percussion instruments, two Hungarian cymbaloms, a harmonium, a pianola, and voices.
The same unusual instrumentation, clear, incisive, precise, is used for Robin Melchior’s arrangement of Ravel’s Boléro: an unexpected and amazing, suave, and totally successful.

En 1914, Stravinski est plus que jamais occupé par la Russie primitive et ses traditions. Il s’attèle ainsi, jusqu’en 1923, à la composition des Noces, qu’il destine aux Ballets russes. Ces “scènes chorégraphiques avec chant et musique” représentent, en quatre tableaux, une cérémonie de mariage de la Russie paysanne. Sobre, stylisée, affûtée comme un rasoir, la musique de Stravinski conjugue brutalité rythmique et force incantatoire, rappelant le caractère à la fois éternel et inexorable du cérémonial nuptial. L'œuvre connut plusieurs essais d’instrumentations différentes. Mathieu Romano, l'Ensemble Aedes et Les Siècles enregistrent ici pour la première fois l’intégralité de la version 1919 (achevée en 2007 par Theo Verbey), destinée à un ensemble mêlant percussions, cymbalums hongrois, harmonium, pianola et voix.
Claire, mordante, découpée, cette instrumentation inouïe est transposée au Boléro de Ravel par Robin Melchior, dans une version inattendue qui, par sa suavité, se révèle une totale réussite.

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released January 20, 2023

Stravinsky Igor
Ravel Maurice
Ensemble Aedes : Vocal Ensemble
Les Siècles : Instrumental Ensemble
Mathieu Romano : Conductor

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Ensemble Aedes is a French vocal ensemble founded in 2005 by Mathieu Romano. The group specializes in performing choral music of various styles and periods, from Renaissance to contemporary. Ensemble Aedes has received critical acclaim for their performances and recordings, and has collaborated with many renowned conductors and ensembles. ... more

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