Stravinsky / Men'S Chorus Of The New England Le Roi Des Etoiles - Le Sacre Du Printemps Super-Audio CD

Within a year of it's tumultuous, disrupted and destructive reception at it's 1913 Th??tre des Champs-Elys?es, Paris premiere, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) had made Igor Stravinsky, who'd written the work on commission from Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballet Russes, a household name. While working on Le Sacre, Stravinsky also wrote Le roi des ?toiles, a cantata for male choir and orchestra based on a poem by the symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont that some musicologists have interpreted as a kind of Christian counterpart to the pagan images of Russia in Sacre. A young Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and, in the cantata, the Men's Chorus of the NE Conservatory Choir in these original quadraphonic recordings from 1972, newly remastered by and released on the Pentatone label.

1. Molto Sostenuto - Various Performers 2. Maestoso E Tranquillo - Various Performers 3. Tempo Primo - Various Performers 4. Introduction (Lento) 5. Les Augures Printaniers - Danses Des Adolescentes 6. Jeu Du Rapt 7. Rondes Printani?res 8. Jeux Des Cit?s Rivals 9. Cort?ge Du Sage 10. Adoration de la Terre - Danse de la Terre 11. Introduction (Largo) 12. Cercles Myst?rieux Des Adolescentes 13. Glorification de L'?lue 14. Evocation Des Anc?tres 15. Action Rituelle Des Anc?tres 16. Danse Sacrale (L'?lue)