attack of tuberculosis, which had necessitated a move to Leysin, high in the Alps east of Lake Geneva. And it was here that Stravinsky completed The Nightingale, somehow managing to paper over the development his style had undergone since 1909. The change of scene from the forest to the Chinese Imperial court does to some extent justify the drastic contrast between the leafy, moonlit textures of the pre-Firebird first act and the brittle artifice of the Draughts Chorus and the Chinese March, and above all the subtly dissonant colourings of the scene with Death. Here at Leysin Stravinsky was visited by Jean Cocteau, who hoped, vainly, to secure his collaboration on a theatre project about the biblical David. The only, oblique, outcome of these discussions may have been the tiny string quartet pieces written that summer. But meanwhile sickness was gripping Europe itself. In July, Stravinsky made a hasty visit to Ustilug and Kiev to consult lawyers about his Ukrainian property, and to collect materials he needed for the ballet he was now planning to write about a Russian peasant wedding. It was the last time he set foot on Ukrainian soil.1910L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (mp3 - score - red. piano)BalletDeux poemes (P. Verlaine), op.9 (mp3 - score)for Baritone and PianoOrchestral version, 19511911Petrushka (mp3 - score)BalletTranscriptions:Petrushka Suite, Three Movements for Piano, 1921; (mp3 - score)Deux poemes (K. Balmont) (mp3 - score)for high Voice and PianoTranscription:for high Voice and Chamber Orchestra, 19541912Le roi des etoiles (The King of the Stars)(K. Balmont) for Men's Choir and Orchestra1913Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (mp3 - score)Ballet(Piano version, four hands, 1913) (mp3 - score)Trois poesies de la lyrique japonaise (Three Japanese Lyrics) (mp3 - score - voice/piano)for Soprano and Piano or Chamber OrchestraSouvenir de mon enfance (Recollections of my Childhood) (mp3 - score)Three small Songs for Voice and PianoTranscription:for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, 19301914Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) (mp3)Opera after Hans Christian AndersenTranscription:Chants du Rossignol et Marche chinoise for Violin and Piano, 1932Revised Version, 1962Three Piecesfor String QuartetTranscriptions:for Orchestra, as Etude 1-3, 1918 (see Four Etudes for Orchestra, 1928)Pribaoutki (mp3 - score - voice/piano)for Male Voice and Eight InstrumentsValse des Fleursfor 2 PianosNot published, lost4. Exile in Switzerland, 191420.At first, exile seems not to have interfered much with his composing. Though openly and ferociously anti-German, he kept politics well clear of his music. Instead he inhabited a kind of private Russian land of the spirit, working simultaneously on his ballet, a musical setting of authentic wedding ritual texts, and on a number of tiny songs and choruses (Pribautki, the Kolibel'niye or Berceuses du chat, the Podblyudniye), related to it in method and material. It was the start of a period of quiet but excited stylistic evolution, comparatively unhindered by travel or major performances. When war broke out in August 1914, the Stravinskys were summering in the village of Salvan, in the Valais. Later they moved back to Clarens, then again back to the mountains at Chateau d'Oex, from where, in February 1915, the composer made a two-week excursion to Rome to attend the Italian