STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
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Composer or Director: Igor Stravinsky
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Sinfonieorchester Basel
Magazine Review Date: 01/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 73
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SOB06
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(The) Rite of Spring, '(Le) sacre du printemps' |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Basel Symphony Orchestra Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Igor Stravinsky, Composer |
(The) Rite of Spring |
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Dennis Russell Davies, Piano Igor Stravinsky, Composer Maki Namekawa, Piano |
Author: Rob Cowan
Davies seems acutely aware of The Rite’s harmonic language and nowhere is this more obvious than at the end of the work, not in its orchestral guise but in the very pianistic piano duo version (a close relation to the solo version that Stravinsky will have used to demonstrate the piece to friends), where the partnership with Maki Namekawa works particularly well. Try the close of the ‘Sacrificial Dance’, from 16'31", where, if you didn’t know what music you were listening to, you might not even recognise it. The rhythmic shape is familiar but its freshly exposed harmonies aren’t. Fascinating…and, what’s more important, utterly new.
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