Trois mouvements de Petrouchka
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Trois mouvements de Petrouchka, an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka, is one of the two pieces which Igor Stravinsky wrote for Arthur Rubinstein. The other is Piano-Rag-Music.
Rubinstein never recorded these Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka, though accounts of his many live performances of the piece testify to his close sympathy with the music. The three numbers that Stravinsky selected to arrange are, in the order they appear, the “Russian Dance” from the end of the first tableau, “Petrushka's Cell” from the second tableau, and, incorporating almost all of the fourth tableau (including the ending published in the 1947 revision of the ballet), “The Shrove-tide Fair.”
– All Music Guide, Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka.[1]
[edit] Movements
- Danse russe (Russian Dance)
- Chez Petrouchka
- La semaine grasse (The Shrovetide Fair; Mardi Gras)
Playing times vary wildly for the first and second movements. On average, the approximate lengths are 3:32, 5:41 and 9:11, respectively.
