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Sep 8, 2005 - 7:38 PM
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TerraEpon
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Whats the best recording of this?
Thought Ide ask the experts.
thanks in advence
sd
Best in classical music, *especially* with a piece recorded as many times as this, is very very subjective. Best thing to do? If your local library allows CD borrowing and has a good deal of classical, check out a bunch of them. Also, read various reviews (Classicstoday.com is good, and Amazon is *sometimes* good).
I actually have only one recording personally. A double CD set on Duetche Grammaphone, with Claudio Abaddo conductingm containg a bunch of his ballets. It's definetly one of the better Stravinsky collections out there.
Frankly, I'd also recommend The Firebird over Rite, especially to film music fans. The whole thing, of course, not just the suite which is on the above. My version is Stravonsky himself conducting, on CBS/Sony (it also has Scherzo ala Russe on it, which is a bit from what originally was supposed to be a film score).
-Joshua
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With Stravinsky, I generally look toward going with an orchestra and conductor I like. For example, my favorite version of Petrushka is done by Riccardo Muti and the Phildelphia Orchestra.
However, they don't seem to have recorded Rite of Spring, so my favorite of the few versions I have is on the Seraphim Classics CD. It was recorded by Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic. It's paired with their performance of Petrushka, which is also quite good.
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I own a 1969 rendition (68 min and 56 sec) by Pierre Boulez with the Cleveland Orchestra (Sony Classical SMK 64 109, 1994). It is remastered in High Definition 20-bit Sound.
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My own favorite remains Stravinsky's own 1962 recording for Columbia Records.
Very savage piece. And I like the ending better compared to lots of endings which go "glad we're at the end"...
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I own a 1969 rendition (68 min and 56 sec) by Pierre Boulez with the Cleveland Orchestra (Sony Classical SMK 64 109, 1994). It is remastered in High Definition 20-bit Sound.
68 mins of The Rite? Or combined with some oter piece? or do they play it very s l o w l y ?
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Sep 9, 2005 - 7:18 AM
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Esteban
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68 mins of The Rite? Or combined with some oter piece? or do they play it very s l o w l y ?
If it's the same I have at home, there's also Petrushka, also conducted by Boulez with the NYP. Two great performances, unanimously.
I also recommend, if you can find it, the Igor Markevitch recording with the Philharmonia, made in the fifties for EMI.
Markevitch is perhaps the most energetic conductor ever, and one of extreme precision too.
Pierre Monteux (who conducted the first performance of the work in 1913 in Paris) made a classical recording for RCA with the Boston Symphony around 1955.
Now if you look for a more recent and brilliant sound recording, Dutoit with the Montreal Symphony is excellent (Decca), and so are Chailly and Muti (for Decca and EMI respectively). All those recordings date from the eighties...
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Charles Dutoit's recording with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on Decca/London is a superb rendering with stunning sound.
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I have Antal Dorati with The Detroit Symphony Ochestra.It's paired with Petrushka,which is also great.It's from 1981 but its sound good to me and it was cheap on Decca Ovation series.
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