Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Le Sacre de printemps
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Composer: Igor StravinskyConductor: Pierre Boulez
Orchestra: Cleveland Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-10-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Petrouchka: First Tableau: The Shrovetide Fair - Legerdemain Scene - Russian Dance
- Petrouchka: Second Tableau: Petrushka's Room
- Petrouchka: Third Tableau: The Moor's Room - Dance Of The Ballerina - Waltz: The Ballerina And The Moor - Petrushka
- Petrouchka: Fourth Tableau: The Shrovetide Fair - Dance Of The Nursemaids - The Peasant And The Bear-The Jovial Merchant With Two Gypsy Girls - Dance Of The Coachmen And Grooms - The Masqueraders-The Fight: The Moor And Petrushka-Death Of Petrushka
- Le Sacre du printemps: Partie 1
- Le Sacre du printemps: Partie 2
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Free Music Review: Great Petrushka, Sad Sacre
Hit: 4 Stars
This is the recording I "grew up" with. The Petrushka is amazing -- Cleveland's style seems perfectly suited to it.
The Rite is decent, but for whatever reason there are a number of strange mistakes. To name a few I open my Dover score (I use this as a reference since it's so widely available) --
Page 9 - measure 2 -- trumpeter plays two a-flats
Page 13 - system 2 - measure 5 -- a clarinet enters a bar early
Page 88 - measure 1 -- a bass clarinet changes a beat early
Page 92 - last measure forward -- Eb clarinet plays 32nd notes instead of sextuplets.
Such "no brainers" are maddening with an orchestra and conductor of this talent. I haven't checked if this is a studio recording -- if it is, it baffles me how such simple mistakes could get through to the final cut.
However, it is refreshing to hear a wind and string dominated performance again. In my opinion most conductors let the "rawness" of the piece allow the heavy brass to obliterate the delicately crafted orchestral balance, leaving extremely important material covered (see the Michael Tilson Thomas recording with San Francisco). The strings here are almost impeccable, and if I were teaching an orchestration class on strings I would probably use this recording. Unfortunately the horns are wimpy throughout and are decimated by the other brass and even in some cases the winds. For instance, an exceedingly lovely detail is missed in the Dance of the Earth (last dance of the first half), where the horns build ever higher triplet hemiolas -- you can barely hear them at all (granted this is a problem with most recordings -- the conductor often lets the trumpets and drums play too loud, again probably for "power" or whatever).
I don't know why, but I find the mistakes in the Stravinsky/Columbia recording much easier to swallow, since the balance is so much better. I think it may have something to do with potential as well -- Boulez had a chance to make a canonical recording rivaling his 1969 rendition. He succeeded with Petrushka, but not with Le Sacre.
Stravinsky: Petrouchka; Le Sacre de printemps Poster
Boulez's DG remakes for these landmark ballets score over his previous CBS versions on sonic and executional grounds. The Cleveland Orchestra's chilly proficiency and regimented perfection, though, seems achieved at the expense of atmosphere and character, as exemplified in Chailly's Sacre with the same orchestra on London, or the composer-led Columbia Symphony P?trouchka. --Jed DistlerClassical Music CDs
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