Stravinsky conducts music for chamber and jazz ensembles

Album by Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky

Stravinsky Conducts Music for Chamber and Jazz Ensembles is an album by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, released in 1960. The recording presents Stravinsky conducting works scored for small chamber groups and jazz-influenced ensembles, illustrating his use of lean textures, rhythmic complexity and the incorporation of jazz and dance elements as part of his later-career engagement with neoclassical and modernist idioms.
First released: 2007

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Preludium for Jazz Ensemble
    1:31
  2. 2.
    Pastorale
    2:54
  3. 3.
    Ragtime for Eleven Instruments
    4:41
  4. 4.
    Octet for Wind Instruments: I Sinfonia
    3:57
  5. 5.
    Octet for Wind Instruments: II Tema con Variazioni
    7:12
  6. 6.
    Octet for Wind Instruments: III Finale
    3:33
  7. 7.
    Tango
    4:08
  8. 8.
    Concertino for Twelve Instruments
    6:24
  9. 9.
    Ebony Concerto: I Allegro moderato
    3:02
  10. 10.
    Ebony Concerto: II Andante
    2:35
  11. 11.
    Ebony Concerto: III Moderato; Con moto
    3:42