Les Noces, Night/Thoughts

Stravinsky's music in his 1923 ballet "Les Noces", often referred to as a "dance cantata", is powerful, percussive and wild. In four tableaux, the work, which was created for the legendary Ballets Russes in Paris, depicts scenes from a Russian peasant wedding as an archaic ritual, and its rhythmic force is reminiscent of the scandalous "Le sacre du printemps" (The Rite of Spring), composed 10 years earlier. After "Petrushka" and "The Firebird", N...