Hommage to Stravinsky Prague 2021 Poláčková Kinjo Jalovcová Brezina
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Hommage to Stravinsky
- Composer: Stravinsky
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera Národního divadla, Prague, Czech Republic, The National Theatre Opera
- Recorded: April 21, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Alžběta Poláčková, Yukiko Kinjo, Kateřina Jalovcová, Jaroslav Brezina
- Conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink
- Orchestra: National Theater Orchestra
- Chorus: Choir of the Opera of the National Theater
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Opera Národního divadla/The National Theatre Opera
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Program
The Spring, from Two songs after Sergey Gorodetsky’s poems
Three Japanese Lyrics
Berceuses du chat (Cat Lullabies)
Pulcinella Suite
Mass for chorus and wind instruments
We present a concert in honor of Igor Stravinsky as part of the Musica non grata project, in which we present the music of authors who in the past became undesirable for one of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, especially the Nazi.
Paradoxically, Stravinsky is one of these authors – paradoxically, because he himself was not one of the artists who were particularly politically engaged, nor among those whose racial or social origin would arouse resentment among the representatives of totalitarian power. Nevertheless, his music was described as “perverted” in Germany in the late 1930s and as such was also presented in 1938 at the infamous Nazi exhibition Entartete Musik in Düsseldorf.