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Suite d’apres des themes, fragments et morceaux de Giambatista Pergolesi
Pastorale
Airs du rossignol et Marche chinoise
Duo concertant
Berceuse
Prélude et Ronde des princesses
Scherzo
Chanson russe
Divertimento
Danse russe
Tango
Ballade
Scherzino
La Marseillaise

Stravinsky’s collaboration with the violinist Samuel Dushkin was a great artistic success, generating new works for the repertoire as well as arrangements of some of the composer’s most tuneful and popular works. Of these arrangements, Dushkin wrote that Stravinsky seemed ‘to go back to the essence of the music and rewrite or recreate the music in the spirit of the new instrument’. Reviewing the current performers in The Independent, Bayan Northcott writes that ‘these are no ordinary transcriptions. In reducing items from The Firebird or The Fairy’s Kiss to the violin and piano medium, Stravinsky rethought and respaced their every chord’. In the performing partnership of Anthony Marwood and Thomas Ades, Hyperion has a combination that seems to reignite the original flames of inspiration, creation and re-creation.

BBC RADIO 3 CD REVIEW DISC OF THE WEEK

'This fabulous two CD-set offers so many pleasures it's hard to know where to begin … Ades handles the finger-twisting difficulties of the Duo Concertant with total aplomb, and has exactly the right incisive, luminous and chaste sound. Marwood, too, has that springy balletic quality always needed in Stravinsky, but he finds a myriad of colours to go with it: sly sentimental in the 'Chanson Russe' from Mavra, tender in the Duo. In all, it's a marvel' (The Daily Telegraph)

'Ades' touch with the piano parts is at once live-wire and beautifully stylish, with Marwood matching this flair for deftly characterised light and shade … The Pulcinella suite and Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss both scintillate from start to finish … The recorded sound, too, has marvellous presence' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Nothing could be more invigorating than Stravinsky's music for violin and piano … Anthony Marwood finds infinite subtleties in the music's dance, while at the piano Thomas Ades is forceful without being domineering' (The Times)

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Recording details: December 2008; Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom; Produced by Andrew Keener; Engineered by Simon Eadon; Release date: February 2010;