Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 1 (Live) Angharad Lyddo, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Vladimir Jurowski

• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1:
• 1 Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1: I. Allegro moderato (Live) 10:14
• 2 Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1: II. Scherzo Allegretto (Live) 05:54
• 3 Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1: III. Largo (Live) 10:56
• 4 Stravinsky: Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 1: IV. Finale. Allegro molto (Live) 08:08
• The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2:
• 5 Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2: I. The Shepherdess (Live) 02:54
• 6 Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2: II. The Faun (Live) 03:19
• 7 Stravinsky: The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2: III. The River (Live) 03:50
• Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3 (Live):
• 8 Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3 (Live) 13:12
• Funeral Song, Op. 5 (Live):
• 9 Stravinsky: Funeral Song, Op. 5 (Live) 10:18
• The Firebird:
• 10 Stravinsky: The Firebird: Introduction (Live) 02:33
• The Firebird, Tableau 1:
• 11 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: The Magic Garden of Kashchei (Live) 01:50
• 12 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Appearance of the Firebird pursued by Ivan Tsarevitch (Live) 02:27
• 13 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Dance of the Firebird (Live) 01:27
• 14 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Prince Ivan Captures the Firebird (Live) 00:56
• 15 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Supplication of the Firebird (Live) 08:09
• 16 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: The Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples (Live) 02:31
• 17 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Sudden Appearance of Ivan Tsarevitch (Live) 05:50
• 18 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Daybreak – Ivan Tsarevitch Enters into Kashchei's Palace (Live) 07:25
• 19 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Dance of Kashchei's Followers under the Spell of the Firebird (Live) 00:47
• 20 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Infernal Dance of all Kashchei's Subjects (Live) 04:35
• 21 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Lullaby (The Firebird) (Live) 02:42
• 22 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 1: Kashchei's Awakening – Kashchei's Death – Profound Darkness (Live) 02:21
• The Firebird, Tableau 2:
• 23 Stravinsky: The Firebird, Tableau 2: Disappearance of Kashchei's Palace and Magic Spells – The Petrified Warriors Return to Life (Live) 03:20
• The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth:
• 24 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Introduction (Live) 03:13
• 25 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: The Augurs of Spring – Dances of the Young Girls (Live) 03:17
• 26 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of Abduction (Live) 01:13
• 27 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Spring Rounds (Live) 02:55
• 28 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Ritual of the River Tribes (Live) 01:38
• 29 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Procession of the Sage (Live) 00:43
• 30 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: The Sage (Live) 00:30
• 31 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part One - Adoration of the Earth: Dance of the Earth (Live) 01:04
• The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice:
• 32 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Introduction (Live) 03:43
• 33 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Mystic Circles of the Young Girls (Live) 02:59
• 34 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Glorification of the Chosen One (Live) 01:24
• 35 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Evocation of the Ancestors (Live) 00:43
• 36 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Ritual Action of the Ancestors (Live) 03:13
• 37 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part Two - The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) (Live) 04:30
• Total Runtime 02:26:43

Info for Jurowski conducts Stravinsky, Vol. 1 (Live)

The first of three volumes focusing on Stravinsky’s music conducted by Vladimir Jurowski includes his Opus One, the Symphony in E-flat, unmistakably Russian and that young Igor was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. It’s a likeable piece, leaning to Borodin in places, confident and imaginative, with a featherlight Scherzo, an intensely eloquent Largo, and a Finale of Imperial swagger, handsomely brought off by the LPO and Jurowski in immediate and clear sound, the very ideal of the Royal Festival Hall. Mezzo Angharad Lyddon is excellent in Faun and Shepherdess, straight out of the Tchaikovsky songbook, and anticipations of the Stravinsky to come (Firebird anyway) surface with Scherzo fantastique, given a buoyant outing, with fantasy and clarity in equal measure. The ‘lost and found’ Funeral Song – interesting because Stravinsky wrote it (in memoriam Rimsky) rather than for its musical worth, although Jurowski finds more than some previous performances (the piece went viral a few years ago). A shame that this first disc does not include Fireworks, Stravinsky’s Opus Four, for then his first five Opuses would be together, although that way of cataloguing his works would cease.

Album two couples Firebird (complete) and Rite of Spring. The former’s magical fairy-tale setting is perhaps mitigated against somewhat by the directness of the RFH acoustic, but better this than any fakery being added in post-production – such as reverberation or setting the orchestra at a distance – and anyway there is plenty of detail and characterisation to relish in what can be a long-winded score (the composer’s three Suites are preferable), which Jurowski keeps on the move without glossing over aspects, and the LPO is on well-prepared top form, not least through beguiling woodwind solos. As it is for The Rite, curiously from 2008, ten years before the rest of the contents here, seemingly without an audience, very few coughs and noises-off apparent – no applause anyway – and, although a little reverb is now added and the LPO is slightly further away, what a terrific performance this is, powerful and impactful, wildly fast at times yet without compromising precision and lucidity, all very thrilling, and not short of the quietest dynamics when required.

Angharad Lyddon, mezzosoprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Angharad Lyddo
is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, having studied with Janice Chapman, Audrey Hyland and Glenville Hargreaves on the college’s Advanced Diploma in Opera, B. Mus and M. A. degree courses. She continues to study with Janice Chapman.

While at the college, her roles for Royal Academy Opera included Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin, Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon and Polinesso in Ariodante. In opera scenes, she performed the Title Role in Carmen, 1st Maid in Elektra, Nancy in Albert Herring, Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, Older Woman in Flight and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro.

Angharad made her professional début for English National Opera in 2015 as Kate in Pirates of Penzance and performed the role again in their 2017 revival. She sang the role of Daughter of Akhnaten in their 2019 revival of Phelim McDermott’s Olivier Award-winning production, Akhnaten. She has also understudied Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale and Schoolboy, Dresser and Waiter in Lulu for the company.

Other operatic roles include Olga in Eugene Onegin at the 2019 Buxton International Festival and Flosshilde in Das Rheingold for Grimeborn Festival in 2019, Hansel in Iford Arts’ 2018 Education Project, entitled ‘Gingerbread’, based on Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, Suzuki in Madam Butterfly for Salon Opera, Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park for The Grange Festival, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro for Clonter Opera and Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte at the Åbo Svenska Theater in Finland. She was a Jerwood Young Artist at Glyndebourne in 2013 and in 2016, sang Woodpecker in Cunning Little Vixen and covered Hermia. Other covered roles include Polinesso in Ariodante and Alto in Trauernacht, a staging of Bach Cantatas, for Festival d'Aix en Provence.

Angharad is a Samling Artist and among her concert highlights are performances at the Wigmore Hall, Stravinsky's The Faun and the Shepherdess and Requiem Canticles with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, Bach Cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Handel’s Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall. Recent concert performances include recitals at St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the Cowbridge Music Festival, the roles of Marta and Pantalis in a concert performance of Boito's Mefistofele for the Chelsea Opera Group at the Southbank Centre, a tour of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Cardiff, St Davids and Berlin, Mahler 2 with the Horsham Symphony Orchestra, a concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC NOW’s St David’s Day concert.

Angharad represented Wales in the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was a Finalist in the Song Prize competition.

Other awards include Semi Finalist at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, 2nd prize at the International Voice of the Future, Llangollen International Eisteddfod, 3rd prize at Das Lied International Song Competition 2015 and Finalist and Maureen Leharne Competition, Wigmore Hall.

Recent engagements include Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Musico in Manon Lescaut for The Grange Festival and Olga in West Green House Opera’s Eugene Onegin.

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