Pierre Monteux - Stravinsky: Petruskha, The Rite of Spring (1956) [2016]
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BAND/ARTIST: Pierre Monteux
- Title: Stravinsky: Petruskha, The Rite of Spring
- Year Of Release: 1956 [2016]
- Label: Decca / Eloquence
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (Tracks)
- Total Time: 01:08:01
- Total Size: 326 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
There can be few, if any, musicians this century who have conducted as many illustrious and notorious premieres as Pierre Monteux. As conductor of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes from 1911 to 1914, he led the first performances of Ravel’s ‘Daphnis et Chloé ‘(1912), Debussy’s ‘Jeux’ (1913) and Stravinsky’s ‘Le Rossignol’ (1914), as well as the two works recorded here.
Monteux’s’ Petrushka’ was captured on disc three times (all in the 1911 version) and his affection for the work is obvious in this 1956 recording. He brought to the score his own characteristic blend of textual fidelity, clarity and effervescence.
Even more closely associated with Monteux is ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’. As well as the riotous premiere on 29 May, 1913 (just two weeks after that of ‘Jeux’), he conducted the first UK and Dutch performances and the hugely successful Paris concert premiere in April 1914. Stravinsky described this occasion as ‘a triumph such as few composers can have known the like … the musical realisation was ideal … I came on the stage and hugged Monteux who was a river of perspiration: it was the saltiest hug of my life.’ This was the last of Monteux’s five recordings of the piece and his only one in stereo.
Tracks:
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Petrushka
Le Sacre du Printemps
Personnel:
Julius Katchen, piano
Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris
Pierre Monteux
Monteux’s’ Petrushka’ was captured on disc three times (all in the 1911 version) and his affection for the work is obvious in this 1956 recording. He brought to the score his own characteristic blend of textual fidelity, clarity and effervescence.
Even more closely associated with Monteux is ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’. As well as the riotous premiere on 29 May, 1913 (just two weeks after that of ‘Jeux’), he conducted the first UK and Dutch performances and the hugely successful Paris concert premiere in April 1914. Stravinsky described this occasion as ‘a triumph such as few composers can have known the like … the musical realisation was ideal … I came on the stage and hugged Monteux who was a river of perspiration: it was the saltiest hug of my life.’ This was the last of Monteux’s five recordings of the piece and his only one in stereo.
Tracks:
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Petrushka
Le Sacre du Printemps
Personnel:
Julius Katchen, piano
Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris
Pierre Monteux
Classical | Oldies | FLAC / APE
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