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Igor Stravinsky. The Rake's Progress. DVD. Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Haitink. Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1975. With Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke, Richard Van Allan, Samuel Ramey, Rosalind Elias, Nuala Willis, John Fryatt, Thomas Lawlor. Leipzig, Germany: Arthaus Musik, 2005. 101 093. $19.99.
When The Rake's Progress premiered in Venice, many of the critics appreciated its craftsmanship but questioned its relevance (for some representative responses, see Stephen Walsh, Stravinsky, The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 [New York: Oxford University Press, 2006], 271). Younger composers and audiences of twentieth-century music wanted to divest themselves of all ties with the past in the desperate turbulence following the end of World War II, and opera generally--this opera in...
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