The Soldier's Tale, Septet

Album by Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky & Sir John Gielgud & Tom Courtenay & Boston Symphony Chamber Players & Ron Moody

The Soldier's Tale (Septet) is a chamber work by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, composed in 1918. Scored for a septet with spoken narration, it blends modernist chamber textures, folk-influenced motifs and sharply articulated, syncopated rhythms, and marks a move in Stravinsky's output towards economical, theatrical works following his earlier large-scale ballets.

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  1. 1.
    The Soldier's Tale: I The Soldier's March
    1:48
  2. 2.
    The Soldier's Tale: II Narrator: 'Phew, This Isn't A Bad Sort Of Spot'
    0:57
  3. 3.
    The Soldier's Tale: III Music For Scene 1: Airs By A Stream
    2:27
  4. 4.
    The Soldier's Tale: IV Narrator: 'Enter The Devil'
    4:01
  5. 5.
    The Soldier's Tale: V The Soldier's March
    1:33
  6. 6.
    The Soldier's Tale: VI Narrator: 'Hurray, Here We Are! We're Home At Last!'
    2:39
  7. 7.
    The Soldier's Tale: VII Music For Scene 2: Pastorale
    4:07
  8. 8.
    The Soldier's Tale: VIII Narrator: 'The Devil Was Standing There'
    1:48
  9. 9.
    The Soldier's Tale: IX Music For The End Of Scene 2
    0:54
  10. 10.
    The Soldier's Tale: X Narrator: 'He Took The Book'
    2:23
  11. 11.
    The Soldier's Tale: XI Music For The End Of Scene 2: Airs By A Stream
    2:27
  12. 12.
    The Soldier's Tale: XII Narrator: 'They Have Nothing - And Yet They Have It All'
    3:09
  13. 13.
    The Soldier's Tale: XIII Music For Scene 3: Airs By A Stream
    1:01
  14. 14.
    The Soldier's Tale: XIV The Soldier's March
    1:39
  15. 15.
    The Soldier's Tale: XV Narrator: 'Now He Comes To Another Land'
    2:11
  16. 16.
    The Soldier's Tale: XVI The Royal March
    2:29
  17. 17.
    The Soldier's Tale: XVII Narrator: 'They Have The Word For The Band To Play'
    4:10
  18. 18.
    The Soldier's Tale: XVIII The Little Concert
    3:03
  19. 19.
    The Soldier's Tale: XIX Tango
    2:23
  20. 20.
    The Soldier's Tale: XX Valse
    1:52
  21. 21.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXI Ragtime
    2:19
  22. 22.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXII The Devil's Dance
    1:23
  23. 23.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXIII Little Chorale
    0:46
  24. 24.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXIV The Devil's Song
    0:44
  25. 25.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXV Great Chorale
    3:39
  26. 26.
    The Soldier's Tale: XXVI Narrator: 'I Have Everything, He Thinks'
    1:57
  27. 27.
    The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
    2:02
  28. 28.
    Septet: I [onhe Bez.]
    3:12
  29. 29.
    Septet: II Passacaglia
    5:05
  30. 30.
    Septet: III Gigue
    3:35

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