Riccardo Chailly - Stravinsky: Ballets (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:28:15 | 651 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 473 731-2DF2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:28:15 | 651 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 473 731-2DF2
This is a great little set, coupling a ravishing Apollon musagète with a truly stunning Rite ofSpring. The Petrushka is equally fine. The fact that Stravinsky's revision of Apollon dispensed with 'half the woodwind, two of the three harps, glockenspiel and celesta from the original scoring' hardly constitutes the bleaching process that a less colour-sensitive performance might have allowed. Part of the effect comes from a remarkably fine recording where clarity and tonal bloom are complementary, but Chailly must take the credit for laying all Stravinsky's cards on the table rather than holding this or that detail to his chest.