Le sacre du printemps (version 1913) - Pétrouchka

Description

29 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: one of the greatest scandals in the history of music shakes Paris. The Ballets Russes create the new ballet by Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky, "The Rite of Spring". The outraged audience drowns out the orchestra that Stravinsky entrusted to Pierre Monteux in the pit with boos. To celebrate this centenary, François-Xavier Roth, with the exceptional permission of Boosey & Hawkes and with the assistance of musicologist Louis Cyr, has worked to restore The Rite of Spring as it was performed on the evening of May 29, 1913. This work, whose history intertwines with that of World War I, would not be published until eight years after its creation and would undergo, throughout Stravinsky's life, various modifications and corrections, from the composer and from outside hands. This musicological work restores the original colors of the score, of which we hear more than ever all its modernity and radicality.