Track Listing

1. Petrushka - Tableau I: The Shrove -Tide Fair: Beginning
2. Petrushka - Tableau I: The Shrove-Tide Fair: The Crowds
3. Petrushka - Tableau I: The Shrove-Tide Fair: The Charlatan's Booth
4. Petrushka - Tableau I: The Shrove-Tide Fair: Russian Dance
5. Petrushka: Tableau II: Petrushka's Room
6. Petrushka - Tableau III: The Moor's Room: Beginning
7. Petrushka - Tableau III: The Moor's Room: Dance Of The Ballerina
8. Petrushka - Tableau III: The Moor's Room: Waltz (Ballerina and Moor)
9. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove - Tide Fair (Near Evening): Beginning
10. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove - Tide Fair (Near Evening): Dance Of The Nursemaids
11. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove-Tide Fair (Near Evening): Dance Of The Peasant And The Bear
12. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove-Tide Fair (Near Evening): Petrushka - Dance Of The Gypsy Girls
13. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove -Tide Fair (Near Evening): Dance Of The Coachmen and Grooms
14. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove - Tide Fair (Near Evening): The Masqueraders
15. Petrushka - Tableau IV: The Shrove-Tide Fair (Near Evening): Conclusion (Petrushka's Death)
16. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Introduction
17. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I. The Adoration Of the Earth: Dances of the Young Girls
18. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Mock Abduction
19. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Spring Round Dance
20. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Games of the Rival Tribes
21. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Procession Of The Wise Elder
22. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring: Adoration Of The Earth (The Wise Elder)
23. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part I: The Adoration Of The Earth: Dance Of The Earth
24. Le Sacre Du Printemps -The Rite Of Spring - Part II: The Sacrifice: Introduction
25. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part II: The Sacrifice: Mystical Circles Of The Young Girls
26. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring _ Part II: The Sacrifice: Glorification Of The Chosen Victim
27. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part II: The Sacrifice: Summoning Of The Ancients
28. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part II: The Sacrifice: Ritual Of The Ancients
29. Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Rite Of Spring - Part II: The Sacrifice: Sacrificial Dance

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15286 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Whatever the limitations of Stravinsky's baton technique, no one else on disc conjures the same bustling excitement at the outset of Petrouchka. Overlapping, polyrhythmic textures in Petrouchka and in Le Sacre du Printemps come off with Mozartian lucidity, Mendelssonian lightness, and, well, Stravinsky-esque rhythmic exactitude (notwithstanding a few hesitant entrances). The clarity partly stems from the composer's use of his leaner revised scores, helped by close-up, analytical mike work by CBS. There are, of course, slicker, more sonically opulent versions of these 20th century landmarks. And then there are Stravinsky's. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews

A Must-have recording
I never understood why conductors have to make such a complicated hash of these pieces.
If you like these pieces, then you are in for a treat. Simple, clean approach with no fuss, just brilliant music that makes so much sense when played right.

Primal. Astonishing. Humbling
An erstwhile friend presented this to me because one of my two nicknames in college used to be Petrushka (just a fond, familiar, a la Russian way of saying my name). The CD sat unopened in my car for a few days until a bored passenger offered to tear off the cellophane and pop it into the CD player (replacing, I am embarrassed to confess, a CD of the Pussycat Dolls).

Well, as the notes filled my car, I found myself so totally overwhelmed that I had to sit in the parking lot for a long time after I had dropped off my friend. This is the sort of music that melts away existence; that consumes you until you are just a shiver; that picks you up and transports you to that unknown place you had dreamt about oh-so long ago; that makes your thoughts tremble with sheer astonishment at the brutal, primal genius of it all...

Ok, I gave it a valiant try. It is impossible to describe such powerful music without mouthing cliches... As a mere mortal, all I can say is: listen, and weep.

A great album except...
Some of the songs end so abruptly, that it is almost a shock to the system. Twice I checked to see if my CD player was still working. I do not know if the songs themselves where written that way or the person who put this album together did this. I keep imagining a man listening to the music with big scissors just chopping it wherever and whenever he feels like it and saying ok this looks like a good place to end a song. That is unnerving.

The music itself is simply beautiful. This is my first Stravinsky purchase and certainly not my last.