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Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks [Hybrid SACD]

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks [Hybrid SACD]
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Track Listing

  1. Fireworks (Feu D'artifice), fantasy for orchestra, Op. 4
  2. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Introduction
  3. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. The Enchanted Garden of Kastchei
  4. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Appearance of the Firebird, Pursued by Prince Ivan
  5. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Dance of the Firebird
  6. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Capture of the Firebird by Prince Ivan
  7. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Supplication of the Firebird
  8. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Appearance of the Enchanted Princesses
  9. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. The Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples (Scherzo)
  10. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Sudden Appearance of Prince Ivan
  11. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Khorovod (Round Dance) of the Princesses
  12. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Daybreak
  13. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Magic Carillon, Appearance of Kastchei's Monster Guardia
  14. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Arrival of Kastchei the Immortal
  15. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Dialogue of Kastchei and Prince Ivan
  16. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Intercession of the Princesses
  17. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Appearance of the Firebird
  18. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Dance of Kastchei's Retinue, Enchanted by the Firebird
  19. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Infernal Dance of All Kastchei's Subjects
  20. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Lullaby (Firebird)
  21. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Kastchei's Awakening
  22. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 1. Kastchei's Death; Profound Darkness
  23. L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird), ballet in 2 scenes for orchestra: Tableau 2. Disappearance of Kastchei's Palace and Magical Creations
  24. Tango, for chamber orchestra
  25. Scherzo à la Russe, for orchestra
  26. Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), symphonic poem for orchestra: Introduction
  27. Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), symphonic poem for orchestra: Chinese March
  28. Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), symphonic poem for orchestra: Song of the Nightingale
  29. Chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), symphonic poem for orchestra: The Mechanical Nightingale's Game

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #161455 in Music
  • Brand: Philips
  • Released on: 2004-10-12
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD

Customer Reviews

Best sound SACD reissue yet5
Best sound SACD reissue yet:
clear, detailed, resolution, sound-stage, dynamics. Either 2 or 3 channel DSD SACD. Good old Dorati's performance has drive, good tempi.
Recommended !

Analog to SACD done right!5
This new release of this near-legendary 1959 Dorati/LSO performance goes to the head of the class. Using the earlier CD release as a sonic guide (the series was originally overseen by Wilma Cozart Fine), Universal's audio engineers have, again, given us a nearly perfect transfer of the original master tape to this newest, most advanced digital medium. I can't imagine something more musically satisfying.

Stravinsky Jump Starts the Twentieth Century In this Legendary Recording5
No restoration of a classic series of performances has received anything quite resembling the intense loving attention doled out for these classic Dorati recordings of Stravinsky on the Mercury Living Presence label. The results are beyond sensational: this is one of the pivotal recordings of classical music in the last century. Listening to these performances today, half a century later, is nearly a religious experience, and the phenomenal quality fo both sound and performance fully justifies all the time and energy put into their re-release in the SACD format. This is the real thing, the goods, the cat's meow!

Anyone wishing to hear just how great a composer Stravinsky was at the very outset of his career need only sit down to the complete Firebird as played here by the London Symphony. It's quite astonishing to hear such detailing, such superb balances, from an orchestra still unfamiliar with the modern ultra-filigreed works of a Boulez or a Ligetti. Dorati's conducting reminds us of his fabulous work with not only other Russian composers, but moderns, such as Schoenberg. The distinctive clarity of Stravinsky's orchestration; the novelty and freedom from cant of his musical language; his stunning ear for striking color contrasts; all these burst forth in overwhelming display in even Stravinsky's earliest works.

This is what 20th century classical music is all about. If you're curious about the greatest classical composers of the last century you can't do better than begin with this CD.

Highest possible recommendation!