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Composer: Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky (1882–1971)
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Recommended& other works for two pianos four hands
Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
The two-piano transcription is arguably as exhilarating as the full orchestration [of The Rite], and Andsnes and Hamelin offer a reading that is in turns thrilling, unsettling and beautiful…... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Record of the Month
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Record Review, 10th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Instrumental
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Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps & Eötvös: Alhambra Concerto RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Orchestre de Paris, Pablo Heras-Casado
Elegance and transparency aren’t adjectives you’d necessarily associate with this score, but Heras-Casado supplies both in spades, and the pay-offs are fascinating, revealing a wealth of inner... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th April 2021
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Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Piano Duos
RecommendedMozart, Schubert & Stravinsky
Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim (piano duo)
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring prompts several adjectives: brutal, revolutionary, relentless, terrifying...But elegant? Urbane, seductive, sensuous? This astonishing performance is all that and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th October 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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The Introduction is entrancing...It’s pulsating, yet rhythmically crisp...Tam-tams in ‘The Dance of the Earth’ almost leap out from the speakers. It’s not all about power and speed...But when... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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the physical impact here of maximum Berlin Philharmonic firepower is part of what the music itself calls for...Compared to the clotted cream sonorities in evidence here, Rattle's CBSO recording... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th May 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Fischer and his Budapest forces possess the right ingredients: the orchestra is well drilled in an interpretation that's as straight as a Roman road; its strings are searing, and brass and wooodwind... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Orchestral
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Symphony of Psalms & Poulenc: Gloria Judith Blegen (soprano), Westminster Choir, The English Bach Festival Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
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Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky
Recommended1940 & 1946 Recordings
Philharmonic-Symphony of New York, Igor Stravinsky
Invaluable new transfers of Stravinsky on top form as a conductor. This electrifying performance is the finest of his Rite of Spring recordings, and the 1945 Firebird Suite is gripping. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2013, First Choice
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Karajan's 1968 Prokofiev Fifth is a great performance.
Whenever one compares it with later versions inevitably the DG account holds its place at the top of the list. The analogue recording was... — More…CD
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