Artist: VA
Title: 1917 - Music In Turbulent Times
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, booklet)
Total Time: 02:34:30
Total Size: 592 MB
Tracklist:
Fountains Of Rome, P. 106 (Ottorino Respighi)
1 The Fountain Of Trevi 03:52
The Wooden Prince, Sz. 60 (Op.13) (Béla Bartok)
2 4th Dance: Dance Of The Princess With The Wooden Doll (Excerpt) 05:29
El Sombrero De Tres Picos / Part 1 (Manuel de Falla)
3 Dance Of The Miller's Wife08:00
The Planets, Op.32 (Gustav Holst)
4 5. Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age 07:48
5 William Denis Browne: To Gratiana Dancing And Singing 03:53
Three Songs Of The War (Charles Edward Ives)
6 1. In Flanders Fields 02:23
The Hollywood Songbook (Hanns Eisler)
7 Panzerschlacht 00:48
8 Die letzte Elegie 01:18
9 Die Heimkehr 01:36
Sonata For Cello And Piano (Frank Bridge)
10 2. Allegro ma non troppo - Molto allegro e agitato 12:54
11 Debussy: Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon, L. 150 02:15
Le Tombeau de Couperin, M.68 (Maurice Ravel)
12 1. Prélude 02:59
13 2. Fugue 03:17
14 3. Forlane 04:50
15 4. Rigaudon 02:34
16 5. Menuet 03:59
17 6. Toccata 04:00
Symphony No.3 - "Pastoral" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
18 2. Lento moderato 08:55
19 Satie: Parade (Ballet Realiste) (1917) 14:16
Sonata In G Minor For Violin & Piano, L. 140 (Claude Debussy)
20 1. Allegro vivo 04:57
Violin Concerto No.1 In D, Op.19 (Sergey Prokofiev)
21 1. Andantino 10:02
Les Noces / Première Partie (Igor Stravinsky)
22 Premier Tableau: "La Tresse" 05:26
Symphony No.12 In D Minor, Op.112 "The Year 1917" (Dmitri Shostakovich)
23 1. Revolutionary Petrograd (Moderato - Allegro - Più mosso - Allegro) 12:26
24 2. Razliv (Allegro. L'istesso tempo - Adagio) 12:58
25 3. Aurora (L'istesso tempo - Allegro) 04:27
26 4. Dawn Of Humanity (L'istesso tempo - Allegretto - Allegro - Moderato) 09:21
1917 was a year of turbulence - both artistically and politically. It was the penultimate year of World War I, the year of the Russian Revolution, and a year that saw artistic and cultural changes take place. This compilation explores the music inspired by the turbulent times at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Each work tells part of the story of this pivotal year, for example:
Respighi's Fountains of Rome was premiered in 1917 after Toscanini refused to conduct it the previous year after it had been programmed alongside music by Wagner;
Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin was completed in 1917. Each movement is dedicated to a friend who had been killed in the war;
Satie's Parade was a true collaboration across creative worlds: sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso, scenario by Jean Cocteau, music by Erik Satie, and danced by the Ballets Russes in 1917;
Shostakovich's monumental Symphony no.12 "The Year 1917" was written in 1961 in the heart of Communist Russia. It has been suggested that Shostakovich originally wrote a satire of Lenin but due to the potential danger had to recompose the piece at the last minute.
Newly written notes (in English, German and French) by Michael Stegemann, professor of musicology at the University of Dortmund, journalist and former pupil of Oliver Messiaen, explore the stories behind the music.
