Artist: Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano
Album: Stravinsky: Les Noces (1919) – Ravel: Bolero
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 40:52
Total Tracks: 6
Total Size: 720 MB

Tracklist:

1. Mathieu Romano & Ensemble Aedes – Ne vesiolaïa… (Russian Folk Song) (01:32)
2. Renaud Delaigue, Mathieu Romano, Pauline Leroy, Amélie Raison, Martial Pauliat, Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles – Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey), Partie 1 Premier tableau: La tresse (Chez la mariée) (05:00)
3. Renaud Delaigue, Mathieu Romano, Pauline Leroy, Amélie Raison, Martial Pauliat, Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles – Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey), Partie 1 Deuxième tableau: Chez le marié (05:28)
4. Renaud Delaigue, Mathieu Romano, Pauline Leroy, Amélie Raison, Martial Pauliat, Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles – Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey), Partie 1 Troisième tableau: Le départ de la mariée (02:56)
5. Renaud Delaigue, Mathieu Romano, Pauline Leroy, Amélie Raison, Martial Pauliat, Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles – Les Noces, K 40 (1919 Version, Completed by Theo Verbey), Partie 2 Quatrième tableau: Le repas de noces (10:13)
6. Mathieu Romano, Ensemble Aedes & Les Siècles – Bolero, M. 81 (Arr. for Solo Voices, Choir, Cymbaloms, Harmonium, Pianola and Percussion by Robin Melchior) (15:41)

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Stravinsky’s Les Noces went through many metamorphoses. The composer worked on the orchestration of this piece for some ten years, and produced three versions, all of which we have chosen to perform.

Discover here the more intimate 1919 version which we perform with the Dominique Brun dance company. This version, which was set aside because of the technical difficulties posed by the need to synchronise live musicians and mechanical instruments, was nonetheless considered the composer’s favorite, because the best adapted to the prosody and popular spirit of the work. This work is performed with an arrangement of Ravel’s Boléro for five instrumentalists and a 16 singers.