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Ballets russes, Igor Stravinsky ; Les Siecles ; Francois-Xavier Roth

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Ballets russes

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Igor Stravinsky ; Les Siecles ; Francois-Xavier Roth

In the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionized the music of his time. With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamized the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it too literally unheard-of places. Among the very first musicians to perform these works on the instruments that witnessed their birth, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles inaugurated a far-reaching rediscovery of these seminal pieces, allowing today's listeners to appreciate to the full their audacity and their harsh, savage power

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Stravinsky ballets russes, Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrouchka, L'oiseau de Feu