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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
1st Part: Introduction
1st Part: The Augurs Of Spring: Dances Of The Young Girls
1st Part: Ritual Of Abduction
1st Part: Spring Rounds
1st Part: Ritual Of The Rival Tribes
1st Part: Procession Of The Sage
1st Part: The Sage
1st Part: Dance Of Earth
2nd Part: Introduction
2nd Part: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls
2nd Part: Glorification Of The Chosen One
2nd Part: Evocation Of The Ancestors
2nd Part: Ritual Action Of The Ancestors
2nd Part: Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919)
Introduction
The Firebird's Dance
The Firebird's Variations
The Princesses' Round Dance
The Infernal Dance
Berceuse
Finale
Stravinsky: Scherzo a la Russe
Scherzo A La Russe - Symphonic Version (1944)
Stravinsky: Tango No. 72
Tnago No.72 - Orchestra Version (1940)
22nd January 2012
“A fascinating chance to compare a composer's own interpretation with a brilliant newcomer. Ivan Fischer's new Rite of Spring is lean and hungry, razor-sharp and matches his description of it: "fresh, pagan, scary, new and beautiful"...Quite deliberate in places (Spring Rounds is surely too slow) it is full of piercing, unfamiliar detail and accumulates tremendous weight.”
19th February 2012
“The Rite of Spring remains a seismic event in the history of music, still astounding in a performance as gripping and as powerful as this live account by Fischer’s BFO. These Hungarians manage the remarkable feat of making this familiar music sound ever fresh and new — I love Fischer’s chamber-music textures in Dances of the Adolescent Girls, and his Dance of the Earth sounds positively volcanic.”
24th February 2012
****
“This is one of the earthiest, most pagan accounts of the ballet around. It’s also one of the most carefully considered whenever Stravinsky writes in a slow tempo...Whenever the music jerks into high gear — the notes cascading, polyrhythms jabbing — the contrast is doubly thrilling.”
April 2012
**
“Fischer and his Budapest forces possess the right ingredients: the orchestra is well drilled in an interpretation that's as straight as a Roman road; its strings are searing, and brass and wooodwind play in the clipped manner favoured by Stravinsky. In short, it's what the composer said he wanted from a performance of this music. The problem is that Stravinsky did not practise what he preached.”
May 2012
“Fischer's The Rite of Spring is sensual and revealing...There's a elasticity to Fischer's conducting that keeps Stravinsky's score pliable...In a word, this is a 'musical' performance, one where every note seems an inevitable outgrowth of its predecessor. It's not the most viscerally exciting version on disc...[but it] avoids what Stravinsky himself labelled self-glorification.”
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1st Part: Introduction
