Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: and works by Debussy and Rachmaninov

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This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: ONYX4182
Label: Onyx
Length: 66 minutes

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Debussy: Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61

Work length16:17

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus
Vasily Petrenko

I. Très modéré

Track length10:17

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II. Modéré

Track length6:00

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Rachmaninoff: Spring, Op. 20

Work length16:04

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Rodion Pogassov
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus
Vasily Petrenko

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Work length34:22

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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Chorus
Vasily Petrenko

I. Adoration of the Earth

Track length3:27

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II. The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the Young Girls

Track length3:02

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III. Ritual of Abduction

Track length1:15

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IV. Spring Rounds

Track length4:05

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V. Ritual of the Rival Tribes

Track length1:49

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VI. Procession of the Sage

Track length0:40

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VII. The Sage

Track length0:20

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VIII. Dance of the Earth

Track length1:17

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I. The Sacrifice

Track length4:46

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II. Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

Track length3:23

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III .Glorification of the Chosen One

Track length1:28

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IV. Evocation of the Ancestors

Track length0:40

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V. Ritual Dance of the Ancestors

Track length3:43

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VI. Sacrificial Dance

Track length4:27

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Three works inspired by Spring – Stravinsky’s iconic and revolutionary 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring depicts Russian pagan tribes celebrating the emergence of Spring with frenzied dances and ritual sacrifice. The music has a rhythmic complexity and violence that caused a riot to break out at its premier in Paris. Rachmaninov’s Spring Cantata tells the story of a husband who has struggled through the harsh Russian winter knowing his wife has been having an affair with a younger man. He swears he will kill them, but on seeing the wonder of spring all around him, relents and forgives them both. Debussy’s early ‘Printemps’ of 1885 was said to have been inspired by Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’. Debussy was staying at the Villa Medici in Rome when he wrote this colourful and joyous work.

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February 2018

This is a searing account of the Rite. Petrenko judges the speeds acutely, always insistent, without simply trying to set landspeed records, and there’s a visceral energy to the RLPO’s playing, the orchestra cultivating a rawness of sound.

January 2018

The RLPO are in cracking shape under Petrenko’s baton, with playing that is both vibrant and urgent … This is a most enjoyable, entertaining disc.

December 2017

One of the finest recordings of The Rite of Spring, as good as those of Doráti and Stravinsky himself. The Debussy is especially welcome – one of the most evocative Spring-like works ever written, in the right hands – and these are the right hands, as they are also for the other works.

Record Review October 2017

The playing is outstanding.

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

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