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L'Oiseau de feu, complete ballet; Symphonies of Wind Instruments.
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de feu, complete ballet; Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Kent Nagano, London Symphony Orchestra. Virgin Classics 7243 5 61848-2.
When Igor Stravinsky premiered his Firebird ballet in 1910, it marked not only the beginning of a new phase in the composer's output, but a new direction in 20th-century music. In fact, the Firebird was still highly influenced by Stravinsky's more venerable mentors such as Rimsky-Korsakov, whose exotic orientalism can be heard throughout, but it was the doorway through which Petrouchka (1910-11) and The Rite of Spring (1913) would later step. Stravinsky's Rite would mark the true revolution, but the Firebird still contains the seminal directions in its second half with the introduction of Kashchei and especially in his "Infernal Dance" that would lead the way to more original thinking.
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