| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Jeu de cartes | |
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Concerto pour violon en ré majeur | |
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Petrouchka |
| Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Violon |
| Budapest Festival Orchestra | |
| Iván Fischer | Direction |
Two ballet scores and a jazz-age concerto bring out the many facets of Igor Stravinsky, in the expert hands of Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer.
Stravinsky was the ultimate musical chameleon.
His long life spanned a period of continual evolution, the artistic world’s response to two world wars and the Russian Revolution.
He was born when Russian music was still coloured by the glittering canvases of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov and his early ballet scores, which made his name, were commissioned by the impresario Diaghilev.
The second, Petrushka, tells the tragic story of a fairground puppet with a soul, originally danced by the great Nijinsky.
The neo-classical lines of the ballet Jeu de Cartes and the jazz-influenced Violin Concerto carry the composer into the 1930s, reinventing his language while always remaining his inimitable self.
The charismatic Kopatchinskaja is the violin soloist, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by its founder, Iván Fischer.