Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Firebird Suite

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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... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Feb 2012
Catalogue No: CCSSA32112
Label: Channel
Length: 62 minutes

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2012

Finalist - Orchestral

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Stravinsky: Rite of Spring

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Introduction

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The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls

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Ritual of Abduction

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Spring Rounds

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Ritual of the Rival Tribes

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Procession of the Sage

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The Sage

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Dance of the Earth

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Introduction

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Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

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Glorification of the Chosen One

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Evocation of the Ancestors

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Ritual Action of the Ancestors

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Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

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Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Introduction

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The Firebird's Dance

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The Firebird's Variations

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The Princesses' Round Dance

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The Infernal Dance

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Berceuse

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Finale

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Stravinsky: Scherzo a la Russe

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

Stravinsky: Tango No. 72

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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