Thursday, February 17, 2011

MISSING and INCOMPLETE RECORDINGS

MISSING
'Tarantella' for piano (1898)
'Storm Cloud' for voice and piano (1902)
'The Mushrooms Going to War' for bass voice and piano (1904)
Stravinsky's arrangements of Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven and Mussorgsky (1909/1910)
'Two Poems of Verlaine' Op. 9 for baritone and piano (1910/see 1951)
'The Firebird' concert suite of 1911
'Two Poems of Balmont' (1911/see 1954)
'Three Japanese Lyrics' for voice and piano (1912)
'Three Little Songs' ('Recollections of My Childhood') for voice and piano (1913/see 1930)

'Valse' and 'Polka" for cimbalom (1915)
'Souvenir d'une Marche Boche' for piano (1915)
'Canons for Two Horns' (1917) [unpublished/given as payment for medical services]
'Berceuse' for voice and piano (1917)
'Duet for two bassoons' (1918)
'Sektanskaya' for piano, flute and cimbalom (1919)

Stravinsky's arrangements of the 'Variation d'Aurore' and Entr'acte' from Tchaikovsky's 'The Sleeping Beauty' (1921)
'Le Sacre du Printemps' and 'Petruskha' prepared by Stravinsky for player piano (1921)
'Les Noces' prepared by Stravinsky for player piano (1923)
'Parasha's Aria' for soprano and orchestra (1923)
'Suite ... for violin and piano after Pergolesi' [arr. Kochanski-Stravinsky] (1925)
'Le Baiser de la Fée' (the complete ballet) (1928/see 1934)

'The Firebird' for player piano (1929)
'Prelude and Ronde des Princesses' for violin and piano [arr. Kochanski-Stravinsky] (1929)
'Berceuse' for violin and piano [arr. Kochanski-Stravinsky] (1929)
'Credo' (1932 version)
'Ballad' for violin and piano [arr. Dushkin-Stravinsky] (1934)
'Praeludium' for jazz band (1937/see 1953)
'Petit Ramusianum Harmonique' (1937)

a third harmonization of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' (1941)
'Ode" (1943)
'Scherzo à la Russe' (original version for jazz orchestra) (1944)
'Elegy' for solo violin (1944)
'Summer Moon' (1946)
'Hommage to Nadia Boulanger' (1947)
'Ballad' for violin and piano (1947) [arr. Gautier-Stravinsky]

'Fanfare' for three trumpets (1953)
'Four Russian Peasant Songs' (1917/rev. 1954)
Stravinsky's arrangements of Gesualdo's 'Tres Sacre Cantiones' (1959)
'Lullaby' for two recorders (1960)
'Abraham and Isaac' (1962/63)
'Canon' (1965)
'Two Sketches for a Sonata' (1966)
instrumentations of four pieces from J.S. Bach's 'Well-Tempered Klavier' (1966)

INCOMPLETE
'Two Melodies' Op. 6 (1908)
'Scherzo Fantastique' (1908)
'Four Russian Songs' for voice and piano (1919/see 1954)
a studio or concert recording of the complete 'Pulcinella' (1920)

SUMMARY
Several of Stravinsky's compositions and arrangements are unavailable on YouTube. Among the missing are "Le Baiser de la Fée," "Abraham and Isaac," two of the three "Sleeping Beauty" arrangements, the Gesualdo reconstructions "Tres Sacrae Cantiones," five different violin and piano transcriptions made in collaboration with either Paul Kochanski or Samuel Dushkin, or with Jeanne Gautier, "Canon" on a Russian popular tune, "Summer Moon," several songs and small piano pieces, arrangements made by Stravinsky for the Ballet Russes, and piano rolls prepared by Stravinsky of his early ballet music.  A complete recording of "Scherzo Fantastique" on YouTube was removed by the user on August 7, 2010.

Compositions where only portions of the music have been uploaded include the "Scherzo Fantastique" of which there is one shortened live performance and one video in which access is denied in North America.