Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps

Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps
Classical | Easy CD-DA | APE, CUE, No LOG | 1 CD, Covers HQ | 262 MB | CD: October 10, 2006

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Wow, this is some disc! There are so few new major-label productions featuring today's "big" artists--and let's face it, so many of those turn out to be uninteresting--that it comes almost as a shock to note that there really can be a difference when everyone involved lives up to their reputations. Without a doubt, Esa-Pekka Salonen is a great conductor, particularly in contemporary music such as this. He recorded The Rite of Spring previously with the Philharmonia for Sony, and that was a very exciting performance, but this one has just that much more bite and savagery in the Sacrificial Dance, or at the conclusion of Part One. Indeed, the playing of the Los Angeles Philharmonic is pretty amazing throughout, with well-nigh unbelievable clarity in the polyrhythmic complexities of the Entry of the Sage, but also in the gentler washes of color that open Part Two.

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Composer: Igor Stravinsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Béla Bartók
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Track Listings:

01 - Night On Bald Mountain
02 - The Miraculous Mandarin
03 - Introduction
04 - Les augures printaniers
05 - Jeu du rapt
06 - Rondes printanières
07 - Jeux des cités rivales
08 - Cortège du sage
09 - Le sage
10 - Danse de la terre
11 - Introduction
12 - Cercles mystérieux des adolescentes
13 - Glorification de l'élue
14 - Evocation des ancètres
15 - Action rituelle des ancètres
16 - Danse sacrale (l'élue)

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