Stravinsky - Petrushka
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True to form, Litton draws exceptionally clean textures from the orchestra, notably fine woodwind colouring, with a keen eye for every facet of both scores...Litton's almost neo-classical approach... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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there are wonders to behold here and you can sense and feel the magic descending in the stealthy opening measures of The Firebird. —
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Record Review, 16th April 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Stravinsky - The Great Ballets
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)
Recommendedand Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique fantasque (compiled by Malcolm Sargent)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
[In the Rossini/Respighi] Petrenko has the idiosyncratic fun of a true ballet master...Petrushka, though, remains the selling-point. If not quite the most vivid throughout, it too has original... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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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. —
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Building a Library, March 2013, First Choice
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Firebird and Petrushka
RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Building a Library, November 2014, Recommendation available on double CD set
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Building A Library, May 2022, Recommended Recording
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Ernest Ansermet Conducts Ballet Music
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedPaul Crossley (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Los...
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, July 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording (The Rite of Spring)
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Pierre Boulez Conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercomporain, Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Orchestral Performance
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Tennstedt’s Petrushka has a rugged feel…The orchestra really digs into the score, relishing its earthy, folklike qualities…The 1919 Firebird Suite is – forgive the pun – a slow burn of a performance.... —
