Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky - Petrushka, Le Sacre (1990)

Artist: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky
Title Of Album: Petrushka, Le Sacre
Year: 1990
Label: Cbs Masterwork
Style: Classical
Format: FLAC(tracks +.cue, log + scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Size: 480 MB (+ 3% rec.)
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.

Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Tracklist:

1. Pétrouchka by Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: Switzerland

Notes: Ver: Original 1911
Composition written: Switzerland (1911).
Composition revised: 1947.
2. Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911-1913

Notes: Composition written: Switzerland (1911 - 1913).
Composition revised: USA (1943).

Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra