Zagreb Po/Kitayenko - Igor Stravinsky: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 1, Suites Nos. 1 & 2 for chamber orchestra

Dmitri Kitayenko has been Music Advisor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2011/12 season. And if there is something with which Maestro Kitayenko has a special affinity, it is the Russian repertoire. It was not surprising, therefore, that he decided on Stravinsky for the first recording of this cooperation between the Orchestra and our label. This recording includes his very first work, the Symphony in E-flat major, as well as the rarely performed Suites 1 & 2 orchestrated by Stravinsky during the years 1921 and 1925. These works for chamber orchestra, however, were originally composed from 1914 to 1920 during the composer�s years of exile in Switzerland.