Stravinsky - Chant Funèbre, etc

The Guardian 100

In this all-Stravinsky disc, Ricardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra bring brilliance, detail and precision to works that include the rediscovered Chant Funèbre

In 2015, an early piece by Stravinsky, lost for over a century, made headlines when it was rediscovered among a pile of manuscripts in the St Petersburg Conservatory. Chant Funèbre was composed in 1908, after the death of Stravinsky’s teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and it received a single performance at a concert in the conservatory the following January. But then the score and parts disappeared, and though Stravinsky himself remembered it as one of the best of his early works, the assumption was that it had been destroyed during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

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