For his debut recording with Linn, conductor Oliver Knussen has assembled an impressive cast of contemporary composers for The Soldier's Tale: Harrison Birtwistle as the soldier and George Benjamin as the Devil, with actress Dame Harriet Walter as the narrator. ("Pastorale"). Joseph then realizes the book contains events that happen in the future. More than 20 years after Stravinsky’s death, the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble performed Stravinsky’s music, but not Ramuz’ story. The devil trades a magic book for the soldier’s fiddle, granting the soldier new wealth through his magic – but the soldier, lonely after leaving his home, soon realizes that riches do not lead to fulfillment. Barry Bostwick played the title role, and the Princess was portrayed by Mercedes Ellington. No one can have it all, Marti, Christoph. He begins to play. Ramuz and Stravinsky collaborated on several important projects. But the devil warns the soldier never to leave the castle. Igor Stravinsky, Roger Waters, BCMF* Igor Stravinsky, Roger Waters, BCMF* - Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale With New Narration Adapted And Performed By Roger Waters (2xLP, Album) Sony Classical, Music On Vinyl: 8719262008625, MOVCL050: Europe: 2018: Sell This Version Performances later in the year in Berlin and Frankfurt were more successful. Musicians, actors, and stage hands all came down with it. The soldier takes the princess's hand, and together they drag the devil away, then fall into each other's arms. Joseph sees the devil in disguise as a cattle merchant and confronts him. It doesn’t fit comfortably in the repertoire of either a ballet company, opera company, or orchestra. (Presented on a triple bill with La voix humaine and The Impresario. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (Histoire du Soldat) (Complete) "Bitte wiederholen" Preis Neu ab Gebraucht ab MP3-Download, 14. He gets agitated and starts looking through the book for the solution, yet cannot find anything. [8] The suite was first performed on 8 November 1919, in Lausanne, long before the better-known suite for the seven original performers became known.[9]. First off, I thought I had a faulty CD as it took three times to load; but it now plays OK. He never in his life got a real feel for jazz, but he insisted that jazz had influenced how he conceived L’histoire du soldat. In this form, the music becomes character sketches of the principal characters rather than accompaniment to a narrative. So the next performance didn’t happen until 1924, in Paris. The narrator tells Joseph the reason the devil controls him is because Joseph still has the devil's money, and if Joseph loses all his money to the devil in a card game, he will finally be free. The Swiss government ordered the closing of every public performance venue. No. Public domain from Wikimedia Commons The soldier gets the devil drunk, steals the fiddle, and uses it to cure the princess of the land; the soldier fights the devil away by playing the violin and driving him to convulsions, and he and the princess marry. "Zur Kompositionstechnik von Igor Strawinsky: Das Petit concert aus der Histoire du soldat". Joseph leaves his home with nothing. Finally, he arrives at his fiancée's house only to see her with her husband and children. The Soldier’s Tale is a sardonic delight and one of Stravinsky’s most popular pieces, but it is most often heard as a concert suite rather than as originally conceived: a hybrid of action, spoken word and music. Buy CD or download online. He deliberately loses all his money and wins back his fiddle. Over the "Grand Choral" ("Great Chorale"), the narrator tells the moral of the story: Il ne faut pas vouloir ajouter Review/music; Kurt Vonnegut’s reinterpretation of “L’histoire du soldat” / Allan Kozinn, New York Times. Since the whole idea was to make some money in villages, Stravinsky couldn’t write a ballet or an opera. The devil arrives, and for the first time he is not disguised. He had to write on a small scale. Reinhart sponsored and largely underwrote the premiere. L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) is a theatrical work "to be read, played, and danced" (lue, jouée et dansée) by three actors and one or several dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. No other American has received the death penalty for desertion since the Civil War. Quarter Note = 52" and more. Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Musicians, Roger Waters (narrator) Igor Stravinsky as drawn by Pablo Picasso, December 31, 1920. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1955 Vinyl release of The Soldier's Tale on Discogs. The libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited economic gain. In Igor Stravinsky: Life and career …on Russian folk idioms, while The Soldier’s Tale (1918), a mixed-media piece using speech, mime, and dance accompanied by a seven-piece band, eclectically incorporates ragtime, tango, and other modern musical idioms in a series of highly infectious instrumental movements. You must learn to choose between. More on that later. Two, is as if they had never been. This version received its first performance in November 1919 in Lausanne. John Lankston and the New York City Opera Dancers completed the cast. ("Danse du diable"/"The Devil's Dance") The devil cannot resist the music and begins to contort. Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. Bailey, Kathryn. ("Marche du soldat (reprise)") He arrives at an inn where he hears the news that the king's daughter is sick, and whoever can raise her from her bed will be given her hand in marriage. The concert version also features four speaking parts, those of the Devil, the Soldier, a Princess and an unseen Reader. The company was stranded in Lisbon, anyway. Vervollständigen Sie Ihre Stravinsky*, Vanessa Redgrave, Sting, Ian Mckellen-Sammlung. Although the critic for the New York Times clearly disapproved of Vonnegut’s version, it has received subsequent performances in front of friendlier critics. The British conductor Edward Clark was a friend and champion of Stravinsky and a former assistant conductor to Ansermet at the Ballets Russes. Stream songs including "L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale): Chorale", "L'histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale): Tango" and more. He couldn’t easily get money from his German publishers or any of his interests in Russia either. ("Petit choral"/"Little Chorale"), The devil pops his head in and begins to torment the couple, warning them that Joseph may not leave the castle or the devil will regain control of him. (Reprise: "Marche du soldat"), As Joseph walks the path towards his town, he notices something strange: everyone runs away as they see him. Das Profil der Uraufführung in Lausanne im September 1918, International Music Score Library Project, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%27Histoire_du_soldat&oldid=992236961, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from April 2012, Articles with Galician-language sources (gl), Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In 2002, Joan Sanmartí recorded a jazz arrangement version scored for a septet of. The libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited economic gain. A dancer plays the non-speaking role of the princess, and there may also be additional ensemble dancers. Sony: 19075872732. But the devil warns the soldier never to leave the castle. For this reason, it is commonly performed with a conductor, though some ensembles have elected to perform the piece without one. [13]. Soon, he realizes this material wealth means nothing, and all he wants is the things he had before – the things everyone else has. Stravinsky gave him the score, composed his Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo for him, and made a trio version of L’histoire for him. He marches past his old hometown. He deliberately loses all his money and wins back his fiddle. The work was premiered in Lausanne on 28 September 1918, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. Butler Dance, Music and Theatre present the world premiere of a new staging of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Based on a Russian folk tale, Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale weaves music, dance and the written word to enthrall the viewer. He gave Ramuz a Russian story about a soldier who makes a trade with the devil: his fiddle for a magic book. He needed cash. Der Text wird teils in Gedichtform vom Vorleser zusammen mit der Musik rhythmisch deklamiert, teils vom Vorleser und den Schauspielern (Soldat, Teufel) als Drama gesprochen (wobei der Vorleser meist noch in Reimen und der Teufel nur im … Ragtime"), Joseph and the princess embrace. Vaccaro, Jean-Michel. For that purpose, the piece utterly failed. A ce qu'on a ce qu'on avait, After the devil describes the life of luxury he lives, Joseph accepts. Finally, he finds what he was searching for: his fiddle. Full staging, 1926, Newcastle upon Tyne, conducted by Edward Clark. The work ends with Joseph crossing the frontier post – a boundary not to be crossed – after being tempted by the ideal of both having his wife and his mother. K029 I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. After three days pass, the devil takes Joseph home. ], Balletmaster Peter Martins created the Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat for New York City Ballet. A Swiss financier and amateur clarinetist from Winterthur, Werner Reinhart, paid for the entire production. "Dance; Bouncy Stravinsky Music For a Playful Conversation", "Rock Legend Roger Waters Has Adapted The Narration And Recorded Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" - He Narrates The Whole This Harrowing Modern Fairy Tale Himself", Die Geschichte vom Soldaten: Strawinsky, Ramuz, Auberjonois, Ansermet. Staged version: Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 1955: directed by Douglas Campbell. Vonnegut apparently thought that a work written in war time ought to be more related to the horrors of war. Eventually dissatisfied with the bargain, the soldier plays a card game with the devil. The devil sneaks up on Joseph from behind and startles him. Later, the soldier decides to go visit his mother. Exploring his stylistic options led Stravinsky to write several ragtime pieces, of which this one five-minute piece is the first. What you are with what you were. Joseph immediately perks up and tries to buy the fiddle from the devil. Sources: The Lausanne performance pleased Stravinsky like no other performance of any of his works. Rather, religion, patriotism, and romanticism are central to distracting him. L’histoire du soldat remains one of Stravinsky’s best-loved pieces, whether performed as a drama, a concert suite, or a trio. ("Marche Royale"/The Royal March"). Stravinsky: the composer and his works / Eric Walter White (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984): 235-36, Photo credits: No. The devil offers to take Joseph home for three days to teach him about the book if Joseph will teach him about the fiddle. The audience also enjoyed it. [7] These included a concert suite of five numbers from The Soldier's Tale, arranged for clarinet, violin, and piano, which was a nod to Reinhart, who was regarded as an excellent amateur clarinetist. "The Soldier's Tale" redirects here. A theatrical work ‘to be read, played and danced,’ British stage & television actor Malcolm Sinclair narrates, leading listeners through the soldier’s regretful decision. ("Petit concert"/"The Little Concert") He triumphantly marches into the princess' chambers and starts to play another tune. For the unrelated 1988 movie, see, Stephen Walsh, "The composer, the antiquarian and the go-between: Stravinsky and the Rosenthals, Susan Halpern, "Recital Notes for January 29, 2008" from, "1918. However, this is sometimes changed to a crescendo (especially if performing the Suite). On n'a pas le droit de tout avoir: Listen to Stravinsky Conducts - Movements for Piano and Orchestra, Octet & The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky on Apple Music. The devil asks Joseph to sell him his fiddle, and when Joseph refuses, he offers him a book that he says contains untold wealth. Soldier’s tale. L’Histoire du soldat shows how Stravinsky was able to incorporate a wide range of influences into his own musical idiom: the pasodoble in “Marche royale”/“The Royal March”; the three dances “Tango – Valse – Ragtime” played by Joseph to heal the princess; klezmer music in the instrumentation and textures; Luther’s Ein feste Burg in “Petit choral”/“Little Chorale”; Bach in “Grand choral”/“Great Chorale”. The original French text by Ramuz has been translated into English by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black, and into German by Hans Reinhart [de].[2]. Three performances there went badly. Deux, c'est comme s'ils n'existaient plus. Drawing by Pablo Picasso in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale. That is forbidden. First he takes out his lucky St. Joseph medallion, then a mirror, then a photograph of his girlfriend. In this form, it is usually played in nine movements: Stravinsky prepared a trio for violin, clarinet, and piano as his gift to Reinhart. Stravinsky could no longer easily go there. ("Petite airs au bord du ruisseau (reprise)") Joseph hurls the violin away and tears the book up. In gratitude, Stravinsky dedicated the work to Reinhart,[4] and gave him the original manuscript. "The Soldiers' Tale" ... is a most intriguing listen. Costume design by Clarence Wilson. Suddenly, the devil makes his presence known, clutching the violin to his chest, and taunts Joseph. Narrated version: Montreal Festivals, 1949. Lausanne, Switzerland, 28 September 1918, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. The princess is miraculously resurrected by the music, and begins to dance. Exhausted, he falls to the ground. Your email address will not be published. Joseph turns over some cards and gets an air of confidence when they are all hearts. Erfahren Sie mehr über Veröffentlichungen von Stravinsky*, Vanessa Redgrave, Sting, Ian Mckellen - The Soldier's Tale - Histoire Du Soldat - Geschichte Vom Soldaten auf Discogs. )[clarification needed Mozart's "Der Schauspieldirektor"? Kavafian-Shub-Shifrin Trio program notes / Chamber Music Houston. ("Couplets du diable"/"The Devil's Song"). If you're expecting 'classic' Pink Floyd or 'typical' Roger Waters solo music you'll be disappointed, but if you like S.F Sorrow or Betjeman's Banana Blush by Jim Parker you may find the album an interesting variant on an audiobook. He was imprisoned and executed in 1945. Lawrence Golan, Conductor Lori Garling, Choreographer Morgan Strathmeyer, Dancer Jack Hartman, Devil/Director Steven File, Soldier Jaci Keagy, Narrator. As a theatre piece, it is one of Stravinsky’s great hybrid conceptions: ‘Soldier’s Tale – read, played and … Eventually dissatisfied with the bargain, the soldier plays a card game with the devil. Performed at the Butler ArtsFest. He takes the violin and plays. Igor Stravinsky didn’t set out to write a masterpiece when he composed L’histoire du soldat (or The Soldier’s Tale). As usual, you'll get an email with the link and an extra reminder on Friday. "Tonal Ambiguities as a Constructive Force in the Language of Stravinsky". Qui on est et qui on était Conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, the piece was based on a Russian folk tale drawn from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev called The Runaway Soldier and the Devil.[1]. Stream songs including "Movements for Piano and Orchestra: I. Eighth Note = 110", "Movements for Piano and Orchestra: II. Then he marries a princess and prepares to live happily ever after. To what you have, what you once had; Igor Stravinsky recorded his The Soldier's Tale Suite three times -- first in 1932, then again … May 8, 1993 As the work opens, Joseph, a Russian soldier, marches toward his hometown on leave, pack in tow. 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