Birmingham Symphony Orchestra /
Simon Rattle
Regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' "minimalist" period, Harmonium could be considered a choral symphony. It is premiered by Edo de Waart conducting San Francisco Symphony and Chorus.
Performed by Canadian Brass, live at the Peach Tree Theatre in Atlanta (1985)
Fred Mills, Trumpet
Ron Romm, Trumpet
Marty Hackleman, Horn
Gene Watts, Trombone
Chuck Daellenbach, Tuba
~ The Moor's Room
~ Dance of the Ballerina
~ Waltz - The Ballerina & the Moor
Bolshoi Ballet Company, with Andrey Chistiakov conducting Bolshoi State Academic Theatre Orchestra
Tags: Igor Stravinsky Petrushka Bolshoi Ballet Russian Puppet Diaghilev Ballerina Theatre
The opera tells the true story of the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the resulting death of Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer.
The choral part is sung by The British Girls.
~ Dance of the Wet Nurses
~ Peasant With Bear
~ The Jovial Merchant with 2 Gypsy Girls
~ Dance of the Coachmen & Grooms
~ The Masqueraders
~ The Fight - The Moor & Petrushka
~ Death of Petrushka
~ Apparition of Petrushka's Double
Bolshoi Ballet Company, with Andrey Chistiakov conducting Bolshoi State Academic Theatre Orchestra
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Edo de Waart
The name of the composition, German for 'study of harmony', is named after a book written by Arnold Schoenberg, and the work is famous for combining Schonbergian harmonic principles with minimalism.
![Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene II - Petrushka\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/HzcsW-_RSjM/2.jpg "Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene II - Petrushka\")
![Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene III The Moor\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/-PEfF-IgCKY/2.jpg "Stravinsky: Petrushka, Scene III The Moor\")
