I Solisti Del Vento "Commedia Della Guerra"

Not only Stravinsky himself rehashed his 'Histoire du Soldat' at will in later transcriptions, other celebrities such as Frank Zappa and Wynton Marsalis also made off with this 'melodrama for a speaker , dancer and small ensemble'. The country's top brass players I Solisti del Vento play the original version from 1918 purely instrumentally, without the spoken and danced interventions. The limited instrumental line-up in 'L'Histoire' was partly determined by the limited financial resources during the war. The specific choice of four wind instruments - including clarinet and trombone - violin, double bass and percussion, as well as the jazzy rhythm, are the result of Stravinsky's discovery of American ragtime. The final piece of this period and also a prelude to his neoclassical period is the 'Octet for wind instruments' from 1922. It is a literal dream composition, in which Stravinsky wrote down the beautiful music that he heard played in a dream the night before by eight different wind instruments. The Russian-French program is supplemented with 'Der blaue Harlekin', a tribute to Pablo Picasso by the German composer Volker David Kirchner.