Robert Craft - Firebird / Petrushka

This is the first recording of the Complete Original Version of Stravinsky' most popular work, the Firebird. Among the many differences between the present recording and it's predecessors is the restoration of two long, valveless trumpets on stage.

1) Introduction
2) Kastchei's Enchanted Garden
3) The Firebird Enters Pursued By Ivan Tsarevich
4) The Firebird's Dance
5) Ivan Tsarevich Captures the Firebird
6) The Firebird Begs to Be Released
7) Entrance of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses
8) The Princesses Play with the Golden Apples
9) Ivan Tsarevich Appears
10) The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)
11) Daybreak
12) Ivan Tsarevich Entering Katschei's Palace Sets Off It's Magic Carillon Alerting Kastchei's Monster-Guardians Who Capture Him
13) The Entrance of Kastchei the Immortal
14) Dialogue Between Kastchei and Ivan Tsarevich
15) The Princesses Plead for Mercy
16) The Firebird Enters
17) Dance of Kastchei's Retinue Under the Firebird's Magic Spell
18) Infernal Dance of Kastchei and His Subjects Under the Firebird's Magic Spell
19) The Firebird's Lullaby
20) Kastchei Awakens
21) Kastchei's Death
22) Kastchei's Spell Is Broken His Palace Disappears and the Petrified Knights Return to Life. General Thanksgiving. the Marriage and Coronation of Prince Ivan As Tsar and of the Princess of Unearthly Beauty As Tsarina
23) The Shrove-Tide Fair
24) The Mountebank (Flute Solo)
25) Russian Dance
26) In Petrushka's Cell
27) The Blackamoor
28) The Ballerina (Cornet Solo)
29) Ballerina and Blackamoor. Lento Cantabile
30) The Shrove-Tide Fair
31) The Dance of the Wet-Nurse
32) Peasant with Bear (Tuba Solo)
33) Gypsies and a Rake Vendor
34) Dance of the Coachmen
35) Masqueraders
36) The Scuffle: Blackamoor and Petrushka
37) Death of Petrushka
38) Police and the Juggler
39) Vociferation of Petrushka's Ghost