Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite / Bernstein
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Composer: Igor StravinskyConductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-07-24
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Introduction (Lento)
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Les augures printaniers. Danses des adolescentes
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Jeu du rapt
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Rondes printanieres
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Jeux des cites rivales
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Cortege du Sage
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Adoration de la terre
- Le Sacre du printemps: Premiere partie: Danse de la terre
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Introduction (Largo)
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Cercles mysterieux des adolescentes
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Glorification de l'Elue
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Evocation des ancetres
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Action rituelle des ancetres
- Le Sacre du printemps: Second partie: Danse sacrale. L'Elue
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Introduction
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: L'Oiseau de feu et sa danse
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Variation: De l'Oiseau de feu
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Ronde des princesses
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Danse infernale du roi Kastchei
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Berceuse
- L'Oiseau de feu - Suite: Finale
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Free Music Review: A masterful Firebird, but Le Sacre is variable
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD couples Bernstein's 1982 remakes of two Stravinsky works that were stunning when he first recorded them, twenty years earlier, in New York. The Israel Phil. can be rated alongside a good German radio orchestra from Frankfurt or Cologne, which means that they are highly competent but not inspiring. DG's early digital sound, in the latest remastering at least, has lots of presence and impact without much digital glare.
As to the performances, the Firebird is at times quite inspiring. Bernstein phrases so beautifully n the quieter movements, often at somewhat broader tempos than usual, that the socre weaves a spell other conductors find hard to match. This isn't the flashiest Firebird ever recorded, but it's totally engaging, one of the late Bernstein's best Stravinsky readings.
The Le Sacre is hit or miss--from the opening wind solos led by the bassoon, we are aware that these musicians can't match those in the NY Phil. or London Sym., the two orchestras who played under LB in his earlier, spectacular Le Sacres for Sony. But he so completely owns the work that many moments emrerge with great impact. This isn't a brutal, visceral Le Sacre, despsite the thudding percussion and screaming dissonances. I would rate the best parts among the best I've ever heard, except that LB loses tension too often, and there are sagging tempos here and there. Certainly this Le Sacre deserves four stars, however, and perhaps the Firebird one more.
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