Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes (Card Game)

This page lists all recordings of Jeu de cartes (Card Game), by Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Stravinsky - Rite of Spring & Card Game

Stravinsky:

The Rite of Spring

Jeu de cartes

The USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov

These ballet scores, written respectively in 1913 and 1937, have continued to sound fresh and new throughout the years and these are tremendously exciting performances from the USSR Symphony Orchestra and Evgeni Svetlanov. Recorded in 1966 and 1970 they were the first recordings made inside Russia of these pieces following the lifting of the ban on Stravinsky’s music.

Melodiya - MELCD1000192

(CD)

$13.99

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Stravinsky - Later Ballets

Stravinsky:

Jeu de cartes

Commissioned by George Balanchine, Jeu de cartes is a prime example of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas emerging helter-skelter from Stravinsky’s imagination. Unlike his other ballets, it contains no slow music and no lovers’ pas-de-deux adagio.

Philharmonia Orchestra

Danses Concertantes

Danses concertantes was the first large-scale piece composed entirely in what was to be Stravinsky’s Hollywood home for the next 24 years.

Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble

Scènes de ballet

Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Variations

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

(Rubies from the ballet Jewels)

Mark Wait (piano)

Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Robert Craft

First performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Robert Craft, Variations are the densest music Stravinsky ever wrote, yet the ingenious rhythmic structures allow every note to be heard. Ezra Pound, in a balcony at the Teatro La Fenice for a September 1934 performance of the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, wrote: “the piano and orchestra are as two shells of a walnut”. Alban Berg, who had shared the same concert with Stravinsky, remarked to the latter: “I wish I could write such happy music”

“There are times when Craft brings a welcome rhythmic drive to the music, as in parts of Jeu de cartes and quite a lot of Danses concertantes. But energy, nervous excitement, biting wit - all these seem in short supply.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***

“…a delightful collection brilliantly played and recorded.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2008

Naxos - 8557506

(CD)

$6.99

In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day.