Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka ( Won Kim, Ullman)

Stravinskys joyous psychedelically colourful transcription of 3 Movements from Petrushka. Id heard some of Stravinskys other piano music before I got around to this, didn t get the impression he was a terribly good composer for the instrument but by the time I finished with this, I was like: Yeah, alright, he s a genius at this too. Just think of the number of textures here that you find basically nowhere else the rapidfire planing chords at the beginning of the Russian Dance (weird to use the term planing, since the technique is used in such a drastically different way from Debussy), the bassoon line that peeps out from the middle of the texture at 0:55, the muted chordal tremolos at the beginning of The Shovetide Fair, the shy oboe at 8:44, the exuberant canon over the E pedal at 14:01, all those wild passages of bright, obsessively folkish counterpoint (the 5 main melodies in The Shovetide Fair are derived from Russian folk songs, it turns out). Ands its not just about th