Les SiÈcles, FranÇois-Xavier Roth - Stravinsky: Ballets Russes

Format: 2CD
Catalogue No.: HMX2905342.43
Barcode: 3149020943038
Release Date: 25th June 2021
Genre: Classical

 Paris, early Twentieth Century: in the space of three ballets, a previously unknown Russian composer revolutionised the music of his time.
With The Firebird and Petrushka, respectively fairytale and folktale, and of course The Rite of Spring, a telluric invocation with its insanely
innovative harmonies and rhythms, Stravinsky dynamised the Late Romantic orchestra, taking it to literally unheard-of places.
 Among the very first musicians to perform these works on the instruments that witnessed their birth, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles inaugurated a far-reaching rediscovery of these seminal pieces, giving today’s listeners an opportunity to appreciate to the full their audacity and their harsh, savage power.