Firebird

by Tomita

Firebird cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: RCA Red Seal
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Japanese synthesizer pioneer radically reimagines Igor Stravinsky's iconic ballet suite using a massive array of analog equipment. The recording translates the sweeping impressionism and infernal triumphs of the original orchestral work into a futuristic, deeply atmospheric progressive electronic landscape.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, mythology, fairy-tale, birds, fire, synthesizers, electronic, orchestral, retro-futuristic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Introduction: The Firebird And Its Dance
  2. Variation Of The Firebird
  3. The Round Of The Princesses
  4. Infernal Dance Of King Kastchei
  5. Lullaby
  6. Finale
  7. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun (ドビュッシー　冨田 : 牧神の午後への前奏曲
  8. A Night On Bald Mountain (ムソルグスキー　冨田 : 交響詩　「はげ山の一夜」

Credits

  • TOmita - primary artist, arranged by, performer, performer [electronically created by]
  • Osamu Tezuka - illustration
  • Igor Stravinsky - composed by
  • Claude Debussy - composed by
  • Modest Mussorgsky - composed by

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