May 29th, 2007
Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale Available Now!
Found this:
NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED TRACKS EDITED INTO STRAVINSKY’S 1961 STUDIO RECORDING OF THE SUITE FROM THE SOLDIER’S TALE CREATES A ‘NEW’ RECORDING OF THE ENTIRE WORK
Coupled With Stravinsky’s 1966 RecordingOf Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsConducted by Robert Craft
With the recent discovery in the Sony BMG Masterworks archives of immaculate, never-before-released stereo masters, composer Igor Stravinsky’s only stereo recording of his haunting musical fable The Soldier’s Tale is at last complete. This Sony Classical CD features newly recorded narration by Academy Award®-winning actor Jeremy Irons of a new English adaptation by writer Jeremy Sams of the original French text. The Soldier’s Tale will be released May 29, 2007 in time for the 125th anniversary of Stravinsky’s birth on June 17.
The basis for the new version of The Soldier’s Tale is Stravinsky’s 1961 studio recording, with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble, of the instrumental suite from the complete score. A theater piece for small instrumental […]
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