L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT (Stravinsky) at Moscow Philharmonia, 29th Jan 2012

[Neil McGowan]

Conductor: Alexei Bogorad. Stage-Director: Neil McGowan. Soloists Ensemble of the Russian National Orchestra.
Narrator: Leonid Lavrovsky-Garcia Soldier: Neil McGowan  Devil: David Earl 

[Photography - Alexandra Karelina]

[Admin]

I just noticed this - congratulations! It was the first Shtrafinski work I got to know as a youth. Is there a Guardian-style video? It is not so long since that composer was persona non grata.

[Neil McGowan]

Thank you ;)  I regret that there was not a video.  However, the production comes back again this autumn, on a rather more spacious stage - hopefullly we can make a video then ;)  I didn't cast myself as the Soldier intentionally - he should be younger. The artist concerned fell ill two days before the performance, and I took the role over by default.

[t-p]

These two clips are not chamber performances of Stravinsky's music. It is not opera recording.


This clip is from 2010 production I think