Author: Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 09-16-2014

Details: For her new recording, rising star Alice Sara Ott teams up with Francesco Tristano, a guarantor of highly innovative projects.

Fascinated by the idea of the Ballets Russes, their challenging programme for two pianos centers on Stravinsky's extremely rhythmic and avant-garde score for The Rite of Spring, the crowning succès de scandale of the Ballets Russes, and includes the catchy tune of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

The album features an exciting new composition by Francesco Tristano himself, A Soft Shell Groove, which has never been recorded before.

No ballet company influenced the 20th-century intellectual world as did Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with its signature conceptualization of dance, music, and the fine arts as equal partners in a unified art form. From Nijinsky, Picasso, and Cocteau to Coco Chanel, Diaghilev gathered the leading artistic lights of his time. Yet even amongst such illustrious company, one figure stands out: Igor Stravinsky, the composer who finally made ballet music acceptable to polite society.

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes became one of the most influential ballet companies of the 20th century, in part because of its ground-breaking artistic collaboration among contemporary choreographers, composers, artists, and dancers.

Altogether, the choreographers and dancers of the Ballets Russes overturned many of the static conventions of classical ballet and ushered in the era of modern dance while preserving a sense of tradition and the heritage of the Russian ballet school.

For his new productions, Diaghilev commissioned the foremost composers of the 20th century, such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bartók, Poulenc, Satie, Mussorgsky, etc.

UPC: 028947935414

EAN: 0028947935414

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood