Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex - Pizzetti: Three Orchestr

AJ Glueckert Ekaterina Semenchuk Alex Esposito Adolfo Corrado Luca Bernard Sebastian Geyer Massimo Popolizio Orch, AJ GLUECKERT

Both Pizzetti and Stravinsky were drawn to the subject of Oedipus Rex, but in very different contexts. The 24-year-old Pizzetti was commissioned to write Three Orchestral Preludes for use in a theatrical production. He wrote with an austere sense of orchestral colour, devoid of impressionism that favours the vaguely archaic, with modal inflections. Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio was written in his neo-Classical style, with a central role for narrator. In a stark, stylised and formal setting, the use of Latin, and Stravinsky’s instruction for the leading characters to wear masks, add timeless, impersonal elements to a work that culminates in catharsis.

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