tracks

Introduction
Scene I: Night. Kastchei's Enchanted Garden
Scene I: The Firebird Enters, Pursued by Ivan Tsarevich
Scene I: The Firebird's Dance
Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich Captures the Firebird
Scene I: The Firebird Begs to Be Released
Scene I: Entrance of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses
Scene I: The Princesses Play With the Golden Apples (Scherzo)
Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich Appears
Scene I: The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)
Scene I: Daybreak
Scene I: Ivan Tsarevich, Entering Kastchei's Palace...
Scene I: The Entrance of Kastchei the Immortal
Scene I: Dialogue Between Kastchei and Ivan Tsarevich
Scene I: The Princesses Plead for Mercy
Scene I: The Firebird Enters
Scene I: Dance of Kastchei's Retinue Under the Firebird's Magic spell
Scene I: Infernal Dance of Kastchei and His Subjects Under the Firebird's Magic Spell
Scene I: The Firebird's Lullaby
Scene I: Kastchei Awakens
Scene I: Kastchei's Death
Scene II: Kastchei's Spell is Broken, His Palace Disappears, and the Petrified Knights Return to Life. General Thanksgiving... .
Tableau I: The Shrove - Tide Fair
Tableau I: The Mountebank
Tableau I: Russian Dance
Tableau II: In Petrushka's Cell (Impetuoso)
Tableau III: The Blackamoor
Tableau III: The Ballerina
Tableau III: Valse - Ballerina and Blackamoor (Lento cantabile)
Tableau IV: The Shrove - Tide Fair
Tableau IV: The Dance of the Wet - Nurses
Tableau IV: Peasant with Bear
Tableau IV: Gypsies and a Rake Vendor
Tableau IV: Dance of the Coachmen
Tableau IV: Masqueraders
Tableau IV: The Scuffle (Blackmoor and Petrushka)Tableau IV: Death of Petrushka
Tableau IV: Death of Petrushka
Tableau IV: Police and the Juggler
Tableau IV: Vociferation of Petrushka's Ghost

notes

Made in the EU
Playing Time 78:53 Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, on 27th and 29th November 1996 (Firebird) and 31st January & 1st February 1997 (Petrushka).
Previously released on MusicMasters.
℗ 1997, 1998 & © 2005 Naxos Rights International, Ltd.
Made in Canada.

credits

Composed By – Igor Stravinsky
Conductor – Robert Craft
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
Producer – Gregory K. Squires
Composed By – Igor Stravinsky
Conductor – Robert Craft
Edited By – Richard Price (tracks: 1 to 22), Wayne Hileman (tracks: 23 to 39)
Engineer – Alex Marcou (tracks: 23 to 39), Michael Sheady (tracks: 1 to 22)
Liner Notes – Robert Craft
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra
Producer – Gregory K. Squires

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Published By – Schott Music International
Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios

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