Igor Stravinsky :
"The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)" Suite, 1919 version) (full Score)
It was written 1910, It was first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910
Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird :
After first being turned down by more senior composers, Serge Diaghilev, director of Ballets Russes, asked young composer Igor Stravinsky to create a musical score for a new ballet to be performed called The Firebird. The commission was Stravinsky's first major orchestral composition.
It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company.
It premiered at the Paris Opera on June 25, 1910, and was an immediate success, catapulting
Stravinsky to international fame.
00:00 1. Introduction
02:58 2. The Firebird and its dance (L’Oiseau de feu et sa danse)
03:17 3. The Firebird's variation (Variation de l’Oiseau de feu)
04:42 4. The Princesses’ Khorovod (Rondes des Princesses)
10:13 5. Infernal dance of King Kashchei (Danse infernale de roi Kachtcheï)
14:54 6. Berceuse
19:26 7. Finale (Final)
