Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex/Ildebrando Pizzetti: Three... DVD (2023) cert TBC Title: Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex/Ildebrando Pizzetti: Three... Region: Region 0 Format: DVD / Normal Type: DVD No. of Discs: 1 disc(s) Studio / Publisher: Naxos Music UK Ltd. UK Release Date: 21 Jul 2023 Edition: Normal 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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