Tarantella from Suite Italienne Igor Stravinsky, arr. by Gregor Piatigorsky
In collaboration with cellist Gregor Piatagorsky, Igor Stravinsky created his Suite Italienne for Violoncello and Piano in 1932. The music is transcribed from music of his ballet, Pulcinella, which was premiered in 1920 and is based on an early eighteenth-centurycommedia dell'artelibretto and music believed at the time to have been composed byGiovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736). More recent scholarship has demonstrated that Stravinsky’s source material includes the music of several composers, including Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer, a Dutch diplomat who wrote a series ofConcerto armonici now believed to be the origin of the Tarantella.
Stravinsky rewrote this older music by borrowing specific themes and textures, but making it his own by interjecting modern rhythms, cadences and harmonies, and highlighting musical lines with interesting voicing and orchestration. The Tarantella captures the wit and mischievousness of the ballet’s title character.Notes by Tomoko Fujita
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Tarantella from Suite Italienne Igor Stravinsky, arr. by Gregor Piatigorsky
In collaboration with cellist Gregor Piatagorsky, Igor Stravinsky created his Suite Italienne for Violoncello and Piano in 1932. The music is transcribed from music of his ballet, Pulcinella, which was premiered in 1920 and is based on an early eighteenth-centurycommedia dell'artelibretto and music believed at the time to have been composed byGiovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736). More recent scholarship has demonstrated that Stravinsky’s source material includes the music of several composers, including Unico Wilhelm, Count van Wassenaer, a Dutch diplomat who wrote a series ofConcerto armonici now believed to be the origin of the Tarantella.
Stravinsky rewrote this older music by borrowing specific themes and textures, but making it his own by interjecting modern rhythms, cadences and harmonies, and highlighting musical lines with interesting voicing and orchestration. The Tarantella captures the wit and mischievousness of the ballet’s title character. Notes by Tomoko Fujita
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