Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps | EMI 7236112

Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 7236112

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th April 2013

Contents

Artists

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Works

Stravinsky, Igor

Apollon musagete
Symphonies of wind instruments
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Artists

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Simon Rattle

About

In a year which sees the 100th anniversary of its milestone premiere, EMI Classics releases an exciting new recording of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Also on the disc are new recordings of Stravinsky’s Symphonies d’instruments à vent and Apollon Musagète, another of the Russian master’s ballets (and one of his most serene).

It's probably no accident that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which is really the seminal work of the twentieth century in so many ways, happened in 1913, just before the greatest conflagration that the world had ever known...Stravinsky talked of trying to recapture the violence, this sense of the Earth cracking open, that he witnessed every spring in Russia...but on a deeper level, it's a musical metaphor, for the vessel of an exhausted era cracking open.” - Sir Simon Rattle

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