• Joy of Music – Over 250 years of quality, innovation, and tradition
Lieferzeit
2-3 Tage

Jeu de cartes - A Card Game

Ballet in three deals / Suite
Stage action devised by the composer in collaboration with M. Malayev
Edition: Performance material
Product Type
Hire/performance material

Product Details

Description

They play for high stakes in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Jeu de cartes, written for the first Stravinsky Festival mounted by George Balanchine for the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1937. Stravinsky, himself a keen poker player, invented an abstract drama for the various card ‘characters’, full of deceit and intrigue, which unfolds almost immediately on the card table as a ‘ballet in three deals’. At the start of each deal, the cards are shuffled in an ironic gesture, with the opposing hands played against each other in constantly changing combinations. The malicious joker interferes with the flow of the game several times by demonstrating his power, but can ultimately be defeated by a royal flush in hearts.

There is a lot of bluffing in this game, even with regard to the music: Stravinsky parodies and combines alienated fragments from Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Johann Strauss’ Fledermaus or musical allusions to Beethoven, Ravel and Tchaikovsky.

Orchestral Cast

2 (2. auch Picc.) · 2 (2. auch Engl. Hr.) · 2 · 2 - 4 · 2 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (gr. Tr.) - Str. (12 · 10 · 8 · 6 · 6)

Cast

(Die Karten eines Pokerspiels): 7 Tänzer - 8 Tänzerinnen

More Information

Title:
Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
Ballet in three deals / Suite
Stage action devised by the composer in collaboration with M. Malayev
Les mouvements scéniques réalisés par l'auteur en collaboration avec M. Malaïeff
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1936
Duration:
23 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
April 27, 1937 · New York, NY (USA)
Metropolitan Opera
Conductor: Igor Strawinsky
Set design: Irene Sharaff · Choreography: George Balanchine · American Ballet
(scenic) (first scenic performance)

January 14, 1938 · Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Conductor: Eugene Ormandy · The Philadelphia Orchestra

(concert) (world première of the suite)
Series:
Keywords:

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LS 3859-01
Delivery rights:
Distribution rights for all countries except USA
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

Preview/Media Contents

Audio:

More from this series

Jeu de cartes

Performances

Set Ascending Direction

Page:

  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
    Orchestra: Orchestre National d'Île-de-France
    December 22, 2013 | Paris (France) , Cité de la musique, Salle Pleyel
    16:00
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
    Orchestra: Orchestre National d'Île de France
    December 22, 2013 | Paris (France) , Salle Pleyel
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
    Orchestra: Orchestre National d'Île de France
    December 15, 2013 | Villeparisis (France) , Centre culturel Jacques Prévert
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
    Orchestra: Orchestre National d'Île de France
    December 14, 2013 | Meaux (France) , Théâtre Luxembourg
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Enrique Mazzola
    Orchestra: Orchestre National d'Île de France
    December 13, 2013 | Les Lilas (France) , Théâtre du Garde-Chasse
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Isao Ehara
    Orchestra: Kyudai Philharmonic Orchestra
    December 12, 2013 | Fukoka (Japan) , Acros Fukuoka
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
    December 6, 2013 | Locarno (Switzerland) , Chiesa San Francesco
    20:30
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
    Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
    December 5, 2013 | Lugano (Switzerland) , Palazzo dei Congressi
    20:30
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Festival MANCA 2013
    Conductor: Dima Slobodeniouk
    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo
    December 1, 2013 | Monte Carlo (Monaco) , Auditorium Rainier III
    18:00
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Charles Dutoit
    Orchestra: NHK Symphony Orchestra
    December 1, 2013 | Tokyo (Japan) , NHK Hall
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Charles Dutoit
    Orchestra: NHK Symphony Orchestra
    November 30, 2013 | Tokyo (Japan) , NHK Hall
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Emilio Pomarico
    Orchestra: Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
    November 24, 2013 | Lisboa (Portugal) , Centro Cultural de Belem
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Ken Takaseki
    Orchestra: Toho Gakuen Orchestra
    November 11, 2013 | Kanagawa (Japan) , Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Ken Takaseki
    Orchestra: Toho Gakuen Orchestra
    November 10, 2013 | Tokyo (Japan) , Senju-sakuratsutsumi Junior High School
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Soo-Yeoul Choi
    Orchestra: Korean Symphony Orchestra
    October 24, 2013 | Seongnam (South Korea) , Arts Center, Concert Hall
    11:00
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Orchestra: students orchestra
    August 2, 2013 | Vejen (Denmark) , Askov Hojskole
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Robin Browning
    Orchestra: Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra
    June 22, 2013 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St Matthew's Church, Raynes Park
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
    May 17, 2013 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal Festival Hall
    19.30 h
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Ben Palmer
    Orchestra: Oxford University Orchestra
    May 15, 2013 | Oxford (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Sheldonian Theatre
  • Jeu de cartes - A Card Game
    Conductor: Fábio Mechetti
    Orchestra: Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais
    March 28, 2013 | Belo Horizonte (Brazil) , Grande Teatro do Palácio des Artes
    20:30
  • Set Ascending Direction

    Page:

    Reviews

    Be the first to review this product.