Title from program booklet.

Les noces is a ballet for solo voices (SATB), chorus, 4 pianos & 6 percussionists; The Russian peasant songs are performed twice, in the original unacc. version & in the 1954 arr. with 4 horns. The motets & The Dove descending are for unacc. chorus (SATB); T.S. Eliot in memoriam is for male voices & instrumental ensemble; Tres sacrae cantiones are for unacc. chorus; the originals have missing parts, which were reconstructed by Stravinsky.

Sung in the original languages.

Five bridal folk songs from the Voronezh district, as collected by Galina Tkachova, is included as "examples of the type of folk material which Stravinsky ... drew upon [in Les noces]"--Notes, p. 4.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Lorraine Gwynne in English, French & German, and vocal texts with English, French & German translations inserted in container.

Recorded Oct. 13-14, 1990 at the Royal College of Music, London.

Five bridal folk songs from the Voronezh district / trad. (9:29)

Svadebka = Les noces (23:21)

Podblyudnye = Four Russian peasant songs. 1914/1917 version (2:48) ; 1954 version (4:04)

Bogoroditse devo = Ave Maria : 1934 Slavonic version (1 min.) ; Otshe Nash = Pater noster : 1926 Slavonic version (1:54) ; Simvol very = Credo : 1964 Slavonic version (2:07)

Tres sacrae cantiones. Da pacem Domine ; Assumpta est Maria ; Illumina nos / Gesualdo ; completed by Stravinsky (9:33)

The dove descending breaks the air / text, T.S. Eliot (2:35)

Introitus : T.S. Eliot in memoriam (5:18).

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 > Musical settings.

New London Chamber Choir.

Voronezhskiĭ kamernyĭ khor.