STRAWINSKY: »CHANT FUNÈBRE«

VALERY GERGIEV, conductor
MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER

With this recording the Münchner Philharmoniker highlight one of the most monumental musical rediscoveries of the past years: Igor Stravinsky’s »Chant Funèbre« (Funeral Song), which he composed in 1908 upon the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After its premiere in 1909 the work was lost and would consequentially remain unperformed until its rediscovery within the library of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov-Conservatory over a hundred years later. A striking re-premiere took place in December 2016 with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev.The Münchner Philharmoniker performed this long-lost piece by Stravinsky in January of 2019 with Valery Gergiev, whose immense fascination for the work is most striking: a remarkable moment, which Münchner Philharmoniker are proud to share with audiences around the world with this recording.