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Stravinsky Ballets
RecommendedTeresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, October 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording (complete ballet)
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Fritz Reiner conducts Rimsky Korsakov & Stravinsky
RecommendedChicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
Reiner's magnificent (1956) Scheherazade stands out among the many superb RCA recordings made in Chicago in the 1950s...Sidney Harth, the orchestral leader, naturally balanced, plays most seductively...The... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, October 2023, Also Recommended - Scheherazade
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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D, etc.
RecommendedWolfgang Schneiderhan (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl
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Building a Library, April 2021, Historic Choice - Stravinsky
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Stravinsky - The Fairy’s Kiss & Scènes de ballet
RecommendedBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
What a joy...to hear a conductor with the right instinct for tempo co-ordination and continuity...If only there were more truly sympathetic conductors out there such as Volkov to observe Stravinsky's... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2010, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Berg & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedItzhak Perlman (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Perlman's account of the Berg Violin Concerto with the Boston orchestra under Ozawa has long occupied a respected place in the catalogue. The original reviewer in Gramophone in March 1980 was... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Building a Library, June 2000, Second Choice
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Symphonic Psalms and Prayers
RecommendedBernstein • Schoenberg • Stravinsky • Zemlinsky
David Allsopp (countertenor)
Tenebrae, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Short
It’s good to hear Bernstein’s original design of the solo for a countertenor being respected for once. Allsopp makes much more of the words than most trebles, and there is an arresting immediacy... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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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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Stravinsky: Les Noces, Mass & Cantata
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Susan Parry, Jan Kobow, Vsevolod Grivnov & Maxim Mikhailov
RIAS-Kammerchor, MusikFabrik & Ensemble für Neue Musik, Daniel Reuss
Stravinsky loathed superimposed 'expressiveness', and always insisted his music should be executed rather than interpreted. On that basis, this latest release from the RIAS Chamber Choir of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Recommendation - Choral & instrumental virtuosity
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Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortileges & L'heure Espagnole
RecommendedBerlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la RTF, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
The singing is delightful: neoclassical crispness of articulation goes with refined textures that convey the ripe humour of the one piece, the tender poetry of the other.The inclusion of [the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Remastered CD
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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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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