Pierre Boulez – Igor Stravinsky : Songs VI°
Pastorale
1. Song without words for voice and four wind instruments
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Two Poems by Paul Verlaine
Russian translation by S. Mtusov
2. Gdye v lunnom svyetye (The White Moon)
3. Mrachniye sny (Wisdom)
John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Two Poems by Konstantin Bal’mont
4. 1. Nyezabudochka-tsvyetochek (The Flower)
5. 2. Golub’ (The Dove)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Three Japanese Lyrics
6. 1. Akahito
7. 2. Mazatsumi
8. 3. Tsaraiuki
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Three Songs (Recollections of my Childhood)
9. Sorochenka (The Magpie)
10. Vorona (The Rock)
11. Chicher-Yacher
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: November 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Pribaoutki (Four Songs)
Kornilo (Uncle Pierre)
Natashka (Natasha)
Polkovnik (The Colonel)
Staryets i zayats (The Old Man and The Hare)
John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Four Cat’s Cradle Songs
Sung in Russian
I Spi, kot (Sleep, pussy)
II Kot na pyechi (The cat on the stove)
III Bai-bai (Lullaby)
IV U kota, kota (Father cat has…)
Ann Murray, Mezzo-Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: December 1980
Recording Location: IRCAM Studio, Paris, France
Four Songs
Sung in Russian
I Sylezyen’ (The Drake)
II Syektanskaya (A Russian Spiritual)
III Gusi y lyebyedi (Geese and Swans)
IV Tilim-bom
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: October 1980
Tilim-Bom
Tilimbom, tilimbom
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: November 1980
Mavra – Opera Buffa In 1 Act
Sung in Russian
Song of Parasha « Droog moi mily »
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Musick to hear
Full fadom five
Spring (When Dasies pied)
Ann Murray, Mezzo-Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
In memoriam Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
Robert Tear, Tenor
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Elegy for John F. Kennedy
When a just man dies
John Shirley-Quirk, Baritone
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Hugo Wolf
Spanisches Liederbuch
Arr. Igor Stravinsky
Herr, was trägt der Boden hier.. (Lord, what does the ground here bear?)
Wunden trägst du.. (Thou art wounded)
Ann Murray, Mezzo-Soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, Conductor
Recording date: December 1980
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