Stravinsky (Incls 'Le Sacra du Printemps', 'Petrushka' & 'L'Oiseau de feu')

Stravinsky (Incls 'Le Sacra du Printemps', 'Petrushka' & 'L'Oiseau de feu') cover $25.00 Special Order
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky (Incls 'Le Sacra du Printemps', 'Petrushka' & 'L'Oiseau de feu')
Peter Donohoe (piano) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle

[ EMI 20th Century Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 20 July 2008

This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.

"As ever with Rattle, it's the immense trust he places in the composer's handiwork, the care he exercises in matters of balance and dynamic shading, harmonic context and so on, that pays the dividends." (Gramophone on The Firebird)

"Rattle's is a reading that startles you again and again with the audacious rightness of Stravinsky's instinct."
(Gramophone on The Rite of Spring)

"An Apollo of clean grace, pure colour and scrupulous attention to dynamic markings. It has sinew as well, and a dancing line of a particular character that makes me suspect that Rattle has studied Balanchine's choreography of the work."
(Gramophone on Apollo)

"As ever with Rattle, it's the immense trust he places in the composer's handiwork, the care he exercises in matters of balance and dynamic shading, harmonic context and so on, that pays the dividends. The refinements here are manifold: pianissimos so intense that you can't quite believe them."
(Gramophone on The Firebird)

Tracks:

The Rite of Spring, 'Le sacre du printemps' (1947 revised version)
Petrushka
The Firebird (1910 version)
Apollo - Ballet en deux tableaux (1947 revised version)