VA - Igor Stravinsky Edition (Box-Set 23CD) (2021)

• Three CDs document Stravinsky as a pianist and conductor of his own works.
• Almost a full century of high-profile Stravinsky recordings (1928-2019)
• Reference recordings of the greatest classical artist of the 20th century.
• 64-page, trilingual booklet, CD wallets illustrated with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
• Overall view of most famous and discoverable compositions of all genres from symphonics to vocal music and stage music to chamber music, concerts, piano works and transcriptions.

High-quality honour for the inventor of modernism:
The Stravinsky edition for the 50th Day of death

If you look at the music history of the 20th century so rich in innovations and revolutions, you quickly come to a personality that unites all the great currents of that time: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) laid back such a wide artistic path as hardly any other composer. From the student years of the Russian romantic Rimski-Korsakov to the scandal shattering the art world around his ballet Le Sacre du Printemps to the testing of neoclassicism, the combination of classical and jazz, the twelve-tone atonality, and this in all musical genres: Stravinsky is considered the inventor of modernity. and their first full at the same time. On the occasion of his 50th Anniversary of death on April 6, 2021, Warner Classics releases the 23 CDs comprehensive Stravinsky Edition with famous and discoverable works in high-profile reference recordings by international conductors, soloists and ensembles including historical recordings with Stravinsky as performers. The included recordings were taken between 1928 and 2019.

2021 release. Does any other composer of the 20th century offer such varied riches? If The 'Firebird', glowing with the iridescence of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, brought him his international breakthrough in 1910, The 'Rite of Spring' sealed his fame and set him on the long path towards the terse archaism of 'Ago'n in 1957. Chameleon-like and with tireless creativity, Stravinsky kept pace with the aesthetic evolutions, convolutions and dislocations of his times. In his evocation of the Russia of history and prehistory, in the insolently virtuosic elegance of his pastiches, in his adaptations of Classical myths, in his rediscovery of his faith, and in his late conversion to serialism, he transformed every challenge into an opportunity.