Stravinsky – Le Sacre Du Printemps - Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Igor Stravinsky – Le Sacre Du Printemps
Orchestra – Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Georg Solti
1LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Pallas
Label : Speakers Corner
Original Label : Decca
Recorded May 14th, 1974 in the Medinah Temple, Chicago, USA
Engineered by James Lock, Kenneth Wilkinson
Produced by Ray Minshull
Illustration by Nicholas Roerich
Originally released in 1974
Reissued in 2002
Tracks :
Side A : First Part - L'Adoration De La Terre
Side B : Second Part - Le Sacrifice
Reviews:
To be sure: no other 20th-century ballet music has ever created such a commotion as this ancient rite of spring: it began with a turmoil which developed into a full-scale brawl at the premiere performance in the concert hall, was sung hymns of praise and suffered devastating reviews by critics who tore the work apart, and led up to the musico-philosophical libel written in the Fifties by that self-acclaimed 'chief enemy' of Stravinsky, W. A. Adorno.
This thrilling, epoch-making masterpiece remains fascinating to this very day thanks to its bloodcurdling rhythms, its secretive, intertwined melodies, and the boiling, seething, and lashing of the titanic instrumental forces. And Sir Georg Solti and his phenomenal orchestra certainly ensure that all this is brought over to the listener. The notes of the lyrical passages simply fly out of the loudspeakers with the lightness and airyness to which one is accustomed with DECCA recordings from this era. But one can still be astounded by this audiophile work of art: such a gentle, voluminous, lashing and pounding sound-storm is only normally heard live in the concert hall. And precisely because this recording sounds so marvellous, it tops the vinyl charts in the American specialist magazine The Absolute Sound.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.83 / 5