FULL NOCES (Stravinsky) Documentary Switzerland 2012

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: NOCES   
• Composer: Stravinsky Igor  
• Libretto:
• Venue & Opera Company: Vaud, Switzerland  
• Recorded: 2012
• Type: Other
• Singers: unknown
• Conductor: unknown  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Philippe Béziat, Mirella Giardelli  
• Costume Designer: Marie-Laure Pinsard, Anne-Laure Berger  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: RTS, Play Suisse  
• TV Director: Philippe Béziat  
• Date Published: 2012  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, desubs, frsubs, itsubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Somewhere in the canton of Vaud today, musicians are rehearsing Igor Stravinsky’s “Les Noces,” composed between 1916 and 1922 with the help of Ramuz. During rehearsals, to bring this work back to life, the participants read excerpts from memoirs about Stravinsky. They first work on elements separately, then combine them. As the days go by, the number of musicians increases. At the end of the film, singers, pianists, percussionists, and the full choir perform “Les Noces” in one go, from beginning to end.

  The Wedding, or Svadebka (Russian: Свадебка), is a Russian-language ballet-cantata by Igor Stravinsky scored unusually for four vocal soloists, chorus, percussion and four pianos. Dedicating the work to impresario Sergei Diaghilev, the composer described it in French as “choreographed Russian scenes with singing and music” , and it remains known by its French name of Les noces despite being Russian.

  The Wedding was completed in 1917 but was then subjected to a series of changes of heart by Stravinsky regarding its scoring; he settled on the above forces only in 1923, in time for the premiere in Paris on 13 June that year under conductor Ernest Ansermet and danced by the Ballets Russes to choreography by Bronislava Nijinska. Several versions of the score have been performed over the years, substituting an orchestra for the percussion and pianos or using pianolas in accordance with a version Stravinsky abandoned.

   

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