2/5. The Ballets Russes
Donald Macleod charts how Stravinsky's name was established outside Russia through his collaboration with the Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev. Two Poems of Paul Verlaine
John Shirley Quirk (baritone), Ensemble
InterContemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez Oedipus Rex (Act 1, excerpt)
Thomas Moser (tenor), Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone), Male Chorus of Bavarian Radio, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis
The Rite of Spring (excerpt)
Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
La Tresse (Les Noces, 1st Tableau)
Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Hugues Cuenod (tenor),
Heinz Rehfuss and Vladimir Diakoff (basses) The Motet Choir of Geneva, Renee Peter ,
Doris Rossiaud and Roger Aubert (pianos), director Jacques Horneffer (piano) Symphonies of wind instruments
Detroit Chamber Winds and friends
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight