Robert Craft - Pulcinella / Fairy's Kiss - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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.

The Hot Club of San Francisco goes Fab! The venerable Gypsy Swing Combo interprets The Beatles on the gorgeous new album InchJohn, Paul, George & Django.Inch It was only a matter of time before guitarist Paul Mehling focused his creative mojo on Lennon and McCartney's vast and enduring treasure trove of songs. The founder and guiding spirit of The Hot Club of San Francisco, America's longest running Gypsy swing ensemble, Mehling was first inspired to pick up a guitar when the Beatles launched the British Invasion via Ed Sullivan's show on Feb. 9, 1964. Now Mehling's HCSF is recolonizing the Fab Four's songbook in the name of Gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt with John, Paul, George and Django, a ravishing and consistently revelatory reimagining of classic Beatles tunes. InchWe've been road testing arrangements and tune selections for several years and it's just gold, Inch Mehling says. InchThese tunes were really well crafted, and our job is to present the songs through our prism. Our vision can be summed up as WWDD? What Would Django Do? What if he hadn't died, and had lived long enough to interpret Beatles songs? Because you know he totally would have.Inch

Schoenberg' polyphonic tone poem Pelleas und Melisande is often compared to Debussy' opera based on the same text by Maurice Maeterlinck. According to the composer, InchThe first performance, 1905, in Vienna, under my own direction, provoked riots amo.