Valery Gergiev - Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring

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Japanese pressing, deluxe digipack packaging

Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Orchestra at Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, plus Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus. Valery Gergiev's tempos run down the middle of the road, but there's a lot going for his Kirov (now Mariinsky) recording; spacious balances that bring new, sinister details to the fore, brasses that cut like a Russian icestorm, a violently lurching Danse sacrale. Everywhere, there's a vivid sense of theatre that Gergiev seems to be downloading from the dozens of Russian operas that he has been reviving (Philips).

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Musicians:
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Alexander Toradze, piano
Kirov Chorus

Igor Stravinsky

Le Sacre du printemps

Part 1: L'Adoration de la terre

1. Introduction

2. Les Augures printaniers – Danses des adolescentes

3. Jeu du rapt

4. Rondes printanières

5. Jeu des cités rivales

6. Cortège du sage

7. Le sage

8. Danse de la terre

Part 2: Le Sacrifice

9. Introduction

10. Cercles mystérieux des adolescents

11. Glorification de l'élue

12. Évocation des ancêtres

13. Action rituelle des ancêtres

14. Danse sacrale

Alexander Scriabin

15. Le Poème de l'extase, Op. 54

16. Prométhée - le Poème du feu, Op. 60

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