Michael Tilson Thomas, Seiji Ozawa - Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Fireworks, Petrouchka / Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Chicago Symphony
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Artist: Michael Tilson Thomas, Seiji OzawaComposer: Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Petrouchka: Scene I - The Shrovetide Fair - Vivace - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- The Magic Trick - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Russian Dance - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Scene II - Petrouchka's Cell - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Scene III - The Moor's Cell - L'istesso tempo - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Dance Of The Ballerina - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Waltz - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Scene IV - The Fair - Toward Evening - Tempo Giusto - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Wet Nurses' Dance - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Peasant With Bear - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Gypsies And A Rake Vendor - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Dance Of The Coachmen - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Masqueraders - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- The Scuffle -Moor And Petrouchka- - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Death Of Petrouchka - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Appearance Of Petrouchka's Ghost - Boston Symphony Orchestra
- The Rite Of Spring: The Rite Of Spring -- Part I - The Adoration Of The Earth - Introduction - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Harbingers of Spring - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Mock Abduction - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Spring Khorovod - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Games Of The Rival Tribes - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Procession Of The Wise Elder - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Adoration Of the Earth ; Dance Of The Earth - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Part II - The Sacrifice - Introduction - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Mystic Circles Of The Young Girls - Seiji Ozawa
- Glorification Of The Chosen Victim - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Summoning Of The Ancestors - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Ritual Of The Ancestors - Seiji Ozawa
- The Rite Of Spring: Sacrificial Dance - Seiji Ozawa
- Fireworks: Fireworks, Op. 4 -Fantasy For Orchestra - Seiji Ozawa
Music reviews of Stravinsky: Rite Of Spring, Fireworks, Petrouchka / Ozawa, Tilson Thomas, Chicago Symphony
Music Review: Fantastic Rite of Spring by the fabulous Chicago Symphony
Rating: 5 Stars
Ozawa's account of Stravinsky's most famous ballet is really something. The conductor has the Chicago Symphony playing with total attention and conviction, which is obviously saying something. True, Ozawa's Rite may not have as much color as Chailly or Thomas, but what it does have is absolute rhythmic control. There is never a sense of heaviness or ponderousness in the tutti passages, only power. In this sense, Ozawa's teutonic approach is less Russian Romanticism than modern, which may irk those that prefer a contextualized Rite, but there is no denying this is both a remarkable recording.
Ozawa's Petrouchka (with Michael Tilson Thomas at the piano) is slightly more successful if only because the Boston Symphony offers more timbral nuance than Chicago. At the time this recording was made, Ozawa had just taken the reigns of the Boston Symphony from Liensdorff. Based on this performance, one would think the partnership was destined for success. History, however, would prove otherwise. Here, though, the playing is remarkable. Fabulous percussion, gutsy brass, and appropriately french-sounding winds. Ozawa also is more interpretively interesting here than in the Rite, walking the tightrope between the Firebird of the past and the Rite to come. Still, his slick and stylized approach is missing that last ounce of Stravinskian angularity you find from others, including Dohnanyi, with a surprisingly idiomatic Vienna Philharmonic, Boulez, Chailly, and, of course, Robert Craft. But Ozawa's performance is certainly worthy of your attention and better than some of the less successful performances, such as Solti's atrocious Chicago Symphony recording.
Fireworks, a short symphonic sketch by the young Stravinsky, shows the influences of his teachers, especially Paul Dukas, in the orchestration. Although not a seminal work, it is no mean filler.
The recording quality is of equal quality. Highly recommended.
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