Stravinsky: Rite – Stravinsky & Revueltas

Catalogue # 4778775

Universal Classical Album of the Month, June 2010

TRACK LISTING

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971) Le Sacre du printemps (1911–13) The Rite of Spring Scenes of pagan Russia in two parts I L'Adoration de la terre The Adoration of the Earth [1] Introduction [2] The Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls) [3] Game of Abduction [4] Spring Rounds [5] Games of the Rival Tribes [6] Procession of the Sage [7] Adoration of the Earth – The Sage [8] Dance of the Earth II Le Sacrifice The Sacrifice [9] Introduction [10] Mystic Circles of the Young Girls [11] Glorification of the Chosen One [12] Evocation of the Ancestors [13] Ritual Action of the Ancestors [14] Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

SILVESTRE REVUELTAS (1899–1940) La noche de los mayas (1939) Night of the Maya [15] I Noche de los mayas. Molto sostenuto [16] II Noche de jaranas. Allegro (Tempo di son) Night of Revelry [17] III Noche de Yucatán. Andante espressivo – Tempo giusto [18] IV Noche de encantamiento. Molto lento – Allegro, ma non troppo – Variation I. Lento – Var. II. Più mosso – Var. III. Ancora più mosso – Var. IV. Allegro non troppo – Final. Con violencia Night of Enchantment

Gustavo Dudamel’s two full-frontal force orchestral pieces elicit high octane playing from his Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Both Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps and Revueltas’s La noche de los Mayas are revealed as models of revolutionary music making.

In Le Sacre du Printemps, Stravinsky transformed painter Nicholas Roerich’s fleeting vision of a pagan ritual in which a young girl dances herself to death as a sacrifice to the god of Spring into a musical simulation of barbaric primality.

La noche de los Mayas, originally scored for a 1939 film, is one of Mexico’s musical treasures. This concert suite, edited by José Ives Limantour, dating to 1961, evokes a mystical lost world.