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Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale is a solo work by English rock musician Roger Waters, released on 26 October 2018 by Sony Classical Masterworks. It was recorded on 11 to 12 December in 2014 at Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
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May 7, 2023 · The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky (1888-1971). The London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano (1951- ). With Sting (Gordon Sumner) (1951- ) as the Soldier, Vanessa Redgrave (1937- ) as the Devil, and Ian McKellan (1939- ) as the Narrator. Recorded in 1988.
The Soldier's Tale. Stravinsky. English Version by Donald Pippin. A small platform stage, with a stool (or barrel) on either side. The Narrator sits on one of the stools in front of a small table on which is a jug of white wine. The orchestra is on the other side of the stage.
Its music is by Igor Stravinsky, its libretto, in French, by Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz; the two men conceived it together, their basis being the Russian tale The Runaway Soldier and the Devil in the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.
Histoire du soldat, K029 (Stravinsky, Igor) This work has been identified as being in the public domain in Canada and the United States, as well as countries where the copyright term is life+50 years.
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Stravinsky and The Soldier’s Tale - Close Encounters With Music. Let’s go back to 1910, three years before the premiere of The Soldier’s Tale, four years before the cataclysm of a world war. It is the premiere of The Rite of Spring in the elegant Theatre des Champs Elysees.
At-A-Glance. Composed: 1918. Length: c. 60 minutes. About this Piece. Toward the end of World War I, Stravinsky was facing the harsh realities of economic deprivation: payments from his German publishers were being held back, and the Russian Revolution had cut off his income from the family estate.
