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Stravinsky: Petrushka, etc. review - This superb programme makes the most of its folk-inflected rhythms and melodies, writes TULLY POTTER
TULLY POTTER: Three ballet scores connected by the tragic figure of the great Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky make a superb programme.
The main work is Stravinsky’s second ballet Petrushka (Petrouchka in French), which makes an ideal vehicle for young Finnish whiz kid Klaus Makela, conducting the Orchestre de Paris. The main work is Stravinsky’s second ballet Petrushka (Petrouchka in French), which makes an ideal vehicle for young Finnish whiz kid Klaus Makela, conducting the Orchestre de Paris He is lucky in his interpreters: the 21 singers of Tenebrae, under their director Nigel Short, sing exquisitely and are sympathetically recorded in St John the Evangelist Church, London.
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