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- Original Release Date: 7 Sep 2001
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Introduction | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 3:23 | Not Available | |||
| 2. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 3:12 | Not Available | |||
| 3. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Ritual of Abduction | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 1:16 | Not Available | |||
| 4. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Spring Rounds | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 3:40 | Not Available | |||
| 5. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Ritual of the Rival Tribes | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 1:45 | Not Available | |||
| 6. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Procession of the Sage | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 0:39 | Not Available | |||
| 7. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - The Sage | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 0:26 | Not Available | |||
| 8. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Dance of the Earth | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 1:09 | Not Available | |||
| 9. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Introduction | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 4:22 | Not Available | |||
| 10. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Mystic Circles of the Young Girls | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 3:34 | Not Available | |||
| 11. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Glorification of the Chosen One | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 1:36 | Not Available | |||
| 12. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Evocation of the Ancestors | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 0:49 | Not Available | |||
| 13. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Ritual Action of the Ancestors | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 3:46 | Not Available | |||
| 14. Le Sacre du Printemps - Revised version for Orchestra (published 1947) - Part 2: The Sacrifice - Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 4:54 | Not Available | |||
| 15. Le Poème de l'Extase, Op.54 | Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg | 20:14 | Not Available |
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Valery Gergiev is a passionate conductor and it is somewhat of a surprise to hear his interpretation of Stravinsky's landmark work. This is an unusally quiet, brooding birth, less the outwardly dramatic, sonic bursting performances to which we've grown accustomed. While we wait for what Salonen and the LA Phil do with this work in the new acoutically wondrous Disney Hall in Los Angeles there is much to be learned and absorbed by this magnificently understated recording. Gergiev presents the ballet score more as a symphonic poem, uncovering many delicate moments rarely heard in this masterpiece. Not that he is afraid of massive outbursts - those are captured by him in this spacious recording brilliantly. The Kirov Orchestra obviously has played this piece countless times, evident in the inner voices of the orchestra sounding so completely secure. Just take the time to listen to this performance in a darkened room at night, and the effect is astonishingly mysterious and strangely "beautiful".
The Scriabin without the light effects has always seemed to me to be a work truly created for the recording industry! There is little structure to POEM OF ECSTASY but it is brimming over in lush colors and eroticism. Not a great work, but Gergiev plays it for all its kitschy goodness and makes it wholly believable. This recording of the POEM is a gold standard for orchestral colors.
The Scriabin without the light effects has always seemed to me to be a work truly created for the recording industry! There is little structure to POEM OF ECSTASY but it is brimming over in lush colors and eroticism. Not a great work, but Gergiev plays it for all its kitschy goodness and makes it wholly believable. This recording of the POEM is a gold standard for orchestral colors.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Previous reviewers on Amazon.uk are uniformly positive about this disc. There are far more reviews on Amazon.com but they include some ridiculously harsh and derogatory judgements about the sound, the interpretation and the playing. Too many people on Amazon get their kicks by being superior and snooty about first-rate artists, so let's dispense with their criticisms first. OK; the tam-tam is momentarily lost and out of time right at the beginning of the "Dance of the Earth" and just occasionally the horns are underlit by the engineer, but these tiny flaws pale into insignificance beside the raw energy, commitment and passion of this performance. What so many dolts call "mistakes" are the results of Gergiev's interpretation; he is no slave to the score but uses it as a springboard to deliver a thrilling, newly thought-out version of this seminal work. Thus the cross-rhythms are played with, unwritten pauses are introduced (as before the final chord) and tempi subtly distorted to create specific effects: that's what a conductor is supposed to do, I thought, as long as it is artistically justified - and here it certainly is. I ask you, is it really likely that a conductor of Gergiev's eminence, directing his own orchestra, who have played this difficult piece countless times, would mess up so badly given three days to record less than an hour's music? The sound is an engineering triumph; so much is intense and startling, and so much detail emerges within a dynamic spectrum that ranges from a true ppp to a real fff that this is an audio-buff's dream. The clarity of the sound allows us to hear that Gergiev is at times a bit vocal, as is his wont, but he's hardly the first conductor to supply a few ostinato grunts. To cap it off, we have spectacular performance of Scriabin's post-Wagnerian/Debussyian indulgence "The Poem of Ecstasy": a lush, dreamy account which flowers into a magnificent climax.
Ignore the carpers; this is a superb disc.
Ignore the carpers; this is a superb disc.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Thank you to the previous 4 reviewers for steering me into buying this recording.
I absolutely LOVE the four-hands piano arrangement of Le Sacre Du Printemps and have lost myself many times in the complexity and dynamic of the recording by Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill. To be honest, I have avoided orchestral recordings because of this.
I finally wanted to take the leap into a full orchestral recording, but found many versions terribly "mechanical" and "clinical". Every note in exactly the right place, but somehow shallow with little character and minimal depth of feeling.
Gergiev's interpretation is challenging for me as the tempo, rhythm and weight of many passages feel very different from the piano arrangement, but the passion and earthiness of this performance took my breath away and I am growing to love it as much as the piano version - for different reasons and in a different way but equally.
As has been mentioned, criticism has been thrown at this recording because it is not as technically precise as some. Surely that is the beauty of this performance. A passionate, characterful, human and raw reading of a powerful milestone composition.
I can't recommend this CD highly enough.
I absolutely LOVE the four-hands piano arrangement of Le Sacre Du Printemps and have lost myself many times in the complexity and dynamic of the recording by Benjamin Frith and Peter Hill. To be honest, I have avoided orchestral recordings because of this.
I finally wanted to take the leap into a full orchestral recording, but found many versions terribly "mechanical" and "clinical". Every note in exactly the right place, but somehow shallow with little character and minimal depth of feeling.
Gergiev's interpretation is challenging for me as the tempo, rhythm and weight of many passages feel very different from the piano arrangement, but the passion and earthiness of this performance took my breath away and I am growing to love it as much as the piano version - for different reasons and in a different way but equally.
As has been mentioned, criticism has been thrown at this recording because it is not as technically precise as some. Surely that is the beauty of this performance. A passionate, characterful, human and raw reading of a powerful milestone composition.
I can't recommend this CD highly enough.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
As exicting as it gets
Having seen Gergiev on the TV had to buy the CD, and was not disappointed. I have seen the Rite live and have other audio versions but this certainly is one of the best. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2009 by K.Castle
an explosive and gripping interpretation
I thoroughly recommend this CD. Gergiev brings outthe intense drama and theatricality of this landmark of 20th century Music. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2002 by N. A. Bakhshov
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