Stravinsky the Composer, Volume IX: The Firebird

Tracklist

1. Fireworks (1908)
2. The Firebird (1910): Introduction
3. The Firebird (1910): Scene I: Kastchei's Enchanted Garden
4. The Firebird (1910): The Firebird enters, pusued by Ivan Tsarevich
5. The Firebird (1910): The Firebird's Dance
6. The Firebird (1910): Ivan Tsarevich captures the Firebird
7. The Firebird (1910): The Firebird begs to be released
8. The Firebird (1910): Entrance of the Thirteen Enchanted Princesses
9. The Firebird (1910): The Princesses play with the golden apples (Scherzo)
10. The Firebird (1910): Ivan Tsarevich appears
11. The Firebird (1910): The Princesses' Khorovod (Round Dance)
12. The Firebird (1910): Daybreak
13. The Firebird (1910): Ivan Tsarevich, entering Kastchei's palace, sets off its Magic Carillion, thereby alerting Kastchei's Monster-Guardians, who capture him
14. The Firebird (1910): The entrance of Kastchei the Immortal
15. The Firebird (1910): Dialogue between Kastchei and Ivan Tsarevich
16. The Firebird (1910): The Princesses plead for mercy
17. The Firebird (1910): The Firebird enters
18. The Firebird (1910): Dance of Kastchei's retinue under the Firebird's magic spell
19. The Firebird (1910): Infernal Dance of Kastchei and his subjects under the Firebird's magic spell
20. The Firebird (1910): The Firebird's Lullaby
21. The Firebird (1910): Kastchei awakens
22. The Firebird (1910): Kastchei's death
23. The Firebird (1910): Scene II: Kastchei's spell is broken, his palace disappears, and the Petrified Knights return to life. General Thanksgiving. The marriage and coronation of Prince Ivan as Tsar and of the Princess of Unearthly Beauty as Tsarina
24. Canon for Orchestra on a Russian Popular Tune (1965)
25. Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): I. Dance
26. Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): II. Eccentric
27. Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): III. Canticle
28. Four Etudes for Orchestra (1914): IV. Madrid
29. Variations (1964)
30. Concerto for Strings in D (1946): I. Vivace