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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074644243321 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: October 25, 1990 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 8088 MPN: 42433
Amazon.com: Whatever the limitations of Stravinsky's baton technique, no one else on disc conjures the same bustling excitement at the outset of Petrouchka. Overlapping, polyrhythmic textures in Petrouchka and in Le Sacre du Printemps come off with Mozartian lucidity, Mendelssonian lightness, and, well, Stravinsky-esque rhythmic exactitude (notwithstanding a few hesitant entrances). The clarity partly stems from the composer's use of his leaner revised scores, helped by close-up, analytical mike work by CBS. There are, of course, slicker, more sonically opulent versions of these 20th century landmarks. And then there are Stravinsky's. --Jed Distler
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Rating: - A Must-have recording
I never understood why conductors have to make such a complicated hash of these pieces.
If you like these pieces, then you are in for a treat. Simple, clean approach with no fuss, just brilliant ... Read More
Rating: - Primal. Astonishing. Humbling
An erstwhile friend presented this to me because one of my two nicknames in college used to be Petrushka (just a fond, familiar, a la Russian way of saying my name). The CD sat unopened in my car for ... Read More
Rating: - A great album except...
Some of the songs end so abruptly, that it is almost a shock to the system. Twice I checked to see if my CD player was still working. I do not know if the songs themselves where written that way or the ... Read More
Rating: - the best.
i think when the opportunity comes to hear music in exactly the way the author meant it to be heard is a rare gift. with stravinsky himself conducting, his work here is as perfect as it can ever be performed. ... Read More
Rating: - Najinsky who?!
Nobody does Mr. S like Mr. S. These albums that came out on Columbia are still the ultimate. Why would anyone else bother to try to match the master? This guy was a freaking genius, for goodness sake. You other ... Read More