| L'Envol d'lcare | 24' |
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Ballet for two pianos and percussion or orchestra 3.picc.2.1.Ebcl.2.dbn-4.2.3.1-timp.perc-cel-pft-strings(8.8.6.6.4) Highly original ballet score composed in 1933 for Serge Lifar but, despite its sensational success in the concert hall, not used by Lifar in his Icarus ballet. The work still awaits its dance premiere. A new arrangement of the score for two pianos and percussion is now available for touring by small companies. Markevitch envisaged The Flight of Icarus in transcendent terms and this treatment of the familiar myth could provide an effective and thoroughly modern scenario. |
| Rebus | 24' |
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Ballet for orchestra 2(II=picc)2.1Ebcl.2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc-strings Massine commissioned a score from Markevitch in 1931 for a ballet to be based on the proverb "Pauvreté n'est pas vice", but his troupe was dissolved before the work's first performance. The ballet's stage premiere was recently given in Hagen with new choreography by Richard Wherlock. Rebus could be effectively coupled with Weill's Seven Deadly Sins. |