Introduzione; Serenata; Tarantella; Gavotte con Due Variazione; Scherzino; Menuetto e Finale
Stravinsky's Suite Italienne for violin and piano is
an arrangement of several movements from his ballet Pulcinella (1919 - 1920). In Pulcinella,
Stravinsky had taken works by the early eighteenth-century Italian composer
Giambattista Pergolesi and effectively rewritten them by cutting, altering, and
transforming the music into his own style.
The Suite Italienne was not
Stravinsky's first attempt to transform some of the numbers from the ballet
into a work for violin and piano. In 1925, he wrote a Suite for violin and
piano, after themes, fragments, and pieces by Pergolesi. In 1932, Stravinsky
enlisted the aid of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to rework the earlier Suite into
the Suite Italienne for cello and
piano. In 1932, Stravinsky and violinist Samuel Dushkin arranged the
cello-and-piano Suite into the violin-and-piano Suite Italienne. The charm of Pergolesi's melodies and the piquant
flavor of Stravinsky's rewriting makes his Suite
Italienne one of his most enjoyable works and certainly the most popular of
his works for violin and piano.Ilana Setapen
Classical Music | Violin Music
Igor Stravinsky
Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano Play
Recorded on 09/15/2010, uploaded on 02/16/2011
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Introduzione; Serenata; Tarantella; Gavotte con Due Variazione; Scherzino; Menuetto e Finale
Stravinsky's Suite Italienne for violin and piano is an arrangement of several movements from his ballet Pulcinella (1919 - 1920). In Pulcinella, Stravinsky had taken works by the early eighteenth-century Italian composer Giambattista Pergolesi and effectively rewritten them by cutting, altering, and transforming the music into his own style.
The Suite Italienne was not Stravinsky's first attempt to transform some of the numbers from the ballet into a work for violin and piano. In 1925, he wrote a Suite for violin and piano, after themes, fragments, and pieces by Pergolesi. In 1932, Stravinsky enlisted the aid of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to rework the earlier Suite into the Suite Italienne for cello and piano. In 1932, Stravinsky and violinist Samuel Dushkin arranged the cello-and-piano Suite into the violin-and-piano Suite Italienne. The charm of Pergolesi's melodies and the piquant flavor of Stravinsky's rewriting makes his Suite Italienne one of his most enjoyable works and certainly the most popular of his works for violin and piano. Ilana SetapenMore music by Igor Stravinsky
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Performances by same musician(s)
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 105
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Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (1949)
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