Stravinsky: Petrushka (Live) (Live) Ural Philharmonic Orchestra & Dmitry Liss

• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Petrushka, K012, Scene I:
• 1 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene I: The Shrove-tide Fair (1947 Version) (Live) 07:34
• 2 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene I: Russian Dance (1947 Version) (Live) 02:59
• Petrushka, K012, Scene II:
• 3 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene II: Petrushka (1947 Version) (Live) 04:48
• Petrushka, K012, Scene III:
• 4 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene III: The Blackamoor (1947 Version) (Live) 03:44
• 5 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene III: Waltz (1947 Version) (Live) 03:21
• Petrushka, K012, Scene IV:
• 6 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: The Shrove-tide Fair and the Death of Petrushka (1947 Version) (Live) 01:12
• 7 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: Wet-nurses` Dance (1947 Version) (Live) 02:53
• 8 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: Peasant with Bear (1947 Version) (Live) 01:32
• 9 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: Gypsies and a Rake Vendor (1947 Version) (Live) 01:14
• 10 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: Dance of the Coachmen (1947 Version) (Live) 02:10
• 11 Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012, Scene IV: Masqueraders (1947 Version) (Live) 01:51
• Total Runtime 33:18

Info for Stravinsky: Petrushka (Live) (Live)

Petrushka (1911), along with The Firebird and The Rite of Spring , is one of the three innovative ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev that were composed by Igor Stravinsky during his ‘Russian’ period. Nicknamed a man of a thousand faces by his contemporaries, Stravinsky revealed his neo-folklorist face in Petrushka ; in collaboration with the artist and librettist Alexandre Benois, he courageously brought a motley street crowd, complete with a magician and his puppets, merchants, gypsies, cabbies, and mummers, onto the ballet stage.

Even more important, however, was that Stravinsky showed the world that fairground entertainment is not alien to classical music. His audiences now heard popular and folk genres from a new perspective, including street cries, the sound of the hurdy-gurdy, accordion tunes, and melodies of well-known folk songs, including archetypal Vdol po Piterskoy (Down the Peterskaya); Ah Vy Seni, Moi Seni (Ah you, inner porch), and Ah Sneg Tayet (The snow is melting). The scenes of the Maslenitsa or Mardi Gras festivities in St. Petersburg in the 19th century were portrayed so colourfully that Benois described the work as a ballet of the streets; it was also his idea to resurrect the spirit of Petrushka in the finale, as a recognition of Petrushka’s longing for personal happiness and assertion of self-worth.

The musicologist Boris Asafiev believed that a concert performance of this ballet would give the listener’s imagination much more food for thought than any staged production.

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitry Liss, conductor

Dmitry Liss
is an absolutely magical conductor. The audience was magnetised by his baton. La Liberté

With energy and musicality, Dmitry Liss astounds audiences not only in Russia, where he is one of the most important conductors today, but also worldwide. As principal conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra (UPO) and the Philharmonie Zuidnederland, his indelible creative mark is evident in his development of both orchestras.

Dmitry Liss has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the UPO since 1995. Founded in 1936, he has transformed the UPO into a versatile and dynamic symphony orchestra. Based in Yekaterinburg, on the border between Europe and Asia, it is a major cultural force in the Sverdlovsk region as well as a cultural ambassador on the international stage. Together with the orchestra, Dmitry Liss has been invited to such venues as the Kennedy Center Washington, Bunka-Kaikan Tokyo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Lucerne, Salle Pleyel Paris and Tonhalle Zurich, as well as to various festivals, including the Beethovenfest Bonn, Festival International de Piano de la Roque d’Anthéron and Radio France’s Montpellier Festival. Liss has also received repeat invitations to La Folle Journée in France, Spain, Japan and Russia.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Dmitry Liss was appointed Principal Conductor of the Philharmonie Zuidnederland. As a guest conductor, he has also appeared with renowned orchestras such as the Orchester National de France, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchester Philharmonique du Luxembourg, MDR Orchestra Leipzig, Dortmund Philharmonic and the Naples Philharmonic.

Dmitry Liss is held in high regard by many renowned soloists, including the pianist Boris Berezovsky, with whom he has recorded all four piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninov and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 for Mirare, as well as piano concertos by Khachaturian and Tchaikovsky for Warner Classics. Dmitry Liss’ extensive discography comprises, with recordings of Galina Ustvolskaya and Nikolai Miaskovsky’s symphonies, also lesser-known Russian repertoire, which he also includes in his concert programmes.

In the 2020/2021 season, Dmitry Liss will perform with the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra among others. Together with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra they give concerts at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow and Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg.

Dmitry Liss was born in Balashov and studied Violine, Clarinet and Musicology before becoming a student of Dmitri Kitaenko at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He has been honoured with numerous Russian and international awards, most notably with the honorary title of People’s Artist of Russia (2011), the country’s most prestigious award for achievements in the arts.

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