Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

Album by Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky & Philip Langridge & Florence Quivar & James Morris & Jan‐Hendrik Rootering & Donald Kaasch & Jules Bastin & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Chorus & James Levine

Oedipus Rex is a 1927 opera-oratorio by Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky). The work exemplifies Stravinsky's neoclassical phase, combining declamatory Latin narration and operatic solo writing with austere, rhythmically precise orchestration that blends ancient-dramatic forms with modernist harmonic and rhythmic language and represents a development in his post-ballet compositional trajectory.

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  1. 1.
    Akt 1: Prologue: "Spectateurs, vous allez entendre"
    8:09
  2. 2.
    Akt 1: "Voici Créon, beau-frère d'Edipe"
    3:34
  3. 3.
    Akt 1: "Non reperias vetus scelus"
    3:33
  4. 4.
    Akt 1: "Edipe interroge la fontaine de vérité"
    2:32
  5. 5.
    Akt 1: "Dicere non possum"
    2:42
  6. 6.
    Akt 1: "Invidia fortunam odit"
    2:40
  7. 7.
    Akt 1: "Gloria! Laudibus regina Jocasta"
    1:03
  8. 8.
    Akt 2: "La dispute des princes"
    1:13
  9. 9.
    Akt 2: "Gloria! Laudibus regina Jocasta"
    1:04
  10. 10.
    Akt 2: "Nonn' erubescrite reges"
    7:04
  11. 11.
    Akt 2: "Ego senem cecidi"
    2:19
  12. 12.
    Akt 2: "Le témoin du meurtre sort de l'ombre"
    3:08
  13. 13.
    Akt 2: "Oportebat tacere, nunquam loqui"
    1:40
  14. 14.
    Akt 2: "Nonne monstrum rescituri"
    1:21
  15. 15.
    Akt 2: "In monte reppertus est"
    3:36
  16. 16.
    Akt 2: "Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!"
    0:40
  17. 17.
    Akt 2: "Divum Jocaste caput mortuum!" "Sanguis ater rigabat"
    2:15
  18. 18.
    Akt 2: "Divum Jocaste caput mortuum!" "Ecce! Regem Oedipoda"
    2:54

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