STRAVINSKY - FLOOD Created by Jaap Drupsteen part-1/3

Στην ΠΟΛΥΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΗ ΜΟΥ ΦΙΛΗ Αθηνά, σπουδαία ευγενικιά Ψυχή, που της αρέσουν πολύ αυτά τα μοντέρνα έργα, όσο και τα χάλκινα σε Μπαρόκ.

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• Ο ΚΑΤΑΚΛΥΣΜΟΣ

[doctormarkon]

Φανταστικό.

Δεν το είχα ξαναδεί

[nikolaos333]

Ναι. Είναι πολύ περίεργο και πολύ σπάνιο!

[cedricthecentaur]

Checked this out as I'm just getting into Stravinsky. I've heard this somewhere before, perhaps in a film about the Book of Genesis. Whether you take this stuff literally or not, it still is loaded with meaning, and Stravinsky underlines its sheer breathtaking majesty.

[petezilla]

@petezilla to answer my own question: it is.

[petezilla]

Is the narrator's speech part of the original score/setting?

[johnwillattplant]

This is marvelous!

I was hoping to find the original telecast - but this is perhaps a richer find. Thank you,

nikolaos333 - would love to know more about it. The Flood has an elusive and irreplaceable magic, and this video has seized it beautifully.

[crowkangi]

bearer of light

[Bolenderable]

I shouldn't imply that no younger composer back in the 60s was as impish and devilishly clever as Stravinsky. Ligeti was. Possibly Nancarrow too. Boulez is, and Stockhausen was, a great genius. But the word "clever" just doesn't seem to stick to Boulez and Stockhausen as much as it does to Stravinsky. In a way, he was Petrushka.

[Bolenderable]

Ah, then. Okay. I suppose the rhythmic choral singing near the beginning and also near the end, somewhat akin to Les Noces, may also be "pagan" in some broad sense. Of course, Josefs Legende would also then be a pagan/Abrahamic fusion. And I agree, in a way. I mean, it is odd to see Old Testament figures dancing! Nice to speak with you, as well. :)

[Whiskybar23]

I mean, it was quite new to insert in a cantata (or an oratorio) some dancing parts : the old testament spirit generally doesn't want to have anything to do with sensuality and body expression. Especially this ballet, which was written right before Vietnam in a very puritan country, looks like what was called a "Mystery" in Middle Ages, and includes comic parts : even the Satan character looks a bit clowny. Don't you think so, Bolenderable? Nice to talk with you!

[Bolenderable]

I wouldn't be surprised if you are right about this being a Christian/pagan fusion. Persephone clearly was. But in this case I don't see the paganism. Help me out! I agree it is a work of genius. The younger composers of that time, such as Boulez and Carter, seem stuffy and old fashioned compared to this man just turning 80.

[audiobuttmaster]

I always say: Ψυχή περίεργο όσο Είναι αυτά όσο, my nizzle.