2/5. The Ballets Russes.
A look at how Stravinsky's name was established outside Russia through his collaboration with the Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev. With Donald Macleod.
Music includes: Two Poems of Paul Verlaine
John Shirley Quirk (baritone), Ensemble
Intercontemporain, conductor Pierre Boulez Oedipus Rex, Act I (excerpt)
Thomas Moser (tenor), Siegmund Nimsgern (baritone), Bavarian Radio Male Chorus, Bavarian Radio SO, conductor Colin Davis
The Rite of Spring, Part 1 (excerpt) Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra, conductor Pierre Monteux
Les Noces (1st tableau: At the Bride's House) Basia Retchitzka (soprano), Lucienne Devallier (contralto), Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Heinz Rehfuss (baritone), Vladimir Diakoff (bass), Geneva Motet Choir, 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