Created in 1930, the Symphony of Psalms testifies to Stravinsky's fervent return to religion. Unclassifiable, “this prayer that bites, this prayer of steel” as Leonard Bernstein described it, completes a fresco of piety of great evocative force, like a wall of icons sculpted in the harmony of an alliance with summit between Les Métaboles and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
SYMPHONIE DES PSAUMES
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Begräbnisgesang op. 13
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Mass No. 2 in E minor for choir and wind instrumentsvent WAB 27
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Pater Noster, Symphonie de Psaumes
Les Métaboles
Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg
Léo Warynski, direction