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STRAWINSKY / ABBADO - THE FIREBIRD/CARD GAME (VINYL LP 1975) **NEW**
Igor Stravinsky (Strawinsky) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor and a main figure of musical modernism, one of the greatest representatives of world musical culture of the 20th century. The composer's creative itinerary was extremely dynamic. Stravinsky's musical language tends to overcome the barrier of historical periods and uses historical and personal models (such as Russian folklore, Western cultured tradition, dodecaphony, polyrhythms and asymmetrical rhythms) freely adapting them to his personal creative needs. In stravinsky's works the rhythmic dimension is extremely dynamic and varied and becomes a structural element of the composition, as is the interval elaboration. The composer uses melodic cells that are reassembled and broken down with great variety and freedom, the overlapping and reiteration of rhythmic-interval cells creates episodes of rhythmic-metric asymmetry and polyrhythm. Other elements that we find in his compositions are: the structuring in discordant sections, the use of the octotonic scale and the modal scales. He has written music for a variety of different instrumental and vocal combinations, ranging from works for huge orchestras to works for small ensembles or solo instruments. 
The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu) is a ballet and orchestral concert work written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company. The original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois on a scenario based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner. Its premiere at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910 was an immediate success, catapulting Stravinsky to international fame. The ballet was not only Stravinsky's professional breakthrough, but also the beginning of his partnership with Diaghilev, which would subsequently produce Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, Pulcinella, Mavra, and Les noces. 
Claudio Abbado was one of the leading conductors of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He held a number of prestigious posts, any one of which would be a crowning achievement for a conductor, and his musical presence in both concert and recordings left an undeniable legacy of excellence.  Here he is conducting the world famous London Symphony Orchestra.  
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