IDAGIO | Igor Stravinsky - Orchestral Works 747313915682

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Ingo Metzmacher
SWR Symphonieorchester
Igor Stravinsky

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Composer Biography

Stravinsky dedicated his Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam' to Aldous Huxley, the writer, with whom he shared a nearly two-decade-long friendship in Los Angeles, despite Huxley initially being one of Stravinsky's fiercest critics.

Performer Biography

The SWR Symphony Orchestra, formed in 2016 from a merger of two SWR orchestras, performs a wide range of repertoire from historically informed practice to contemporary music.

Performer Biography

Ingo Metzmacher has held prominent positions including General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

Performer Biography

Ingo Metzmacher, the conductor on this album, is known for his consistent advocacy of 20th and 21st-century music, aiming to make new music audible and familiar music audibly new.

Composition History

Stravinsky's Symphony in C was composed during a personal crisis between 1938 and 1939, when his daughter, wife, and mother died, and he himself contracted tuberculosis; he later described working on it as a 'deliverance, or - at least - recuperation'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Igor Stravinsky, one of the most stylistically versatile composers of the 20th century, believed music's sole purpose was to create order among things, not to express feelings or psychological states.

Performer Biography

The SWR Symphony Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the Whitsun Festival at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden since 2020 and frequently performs at major international venues and festivals.