Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung
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Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Maurice Ravel
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-12
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
  1. Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade. Allegro giusto, nel mordo russico, senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto
  2. Pictures At An Exhibition: Gnomus. Vivo
  3. Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade. Moderato comodo e con delicatezza
  4. Pictures At An Exhibition: Il vecchio castello. Andante
  5. Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade. Moderato non tanto, pesante
  6. Pictures At An Exhibition: Tuileries. Allegretto non troppo, capriccioso
  7. Pictures At An Exhibition: Bydlo. Sempre moderato, pesante
  8. Pictures At An Exhibition: Promenade. Tranquillo
  9. Pictures At An Exhibition: Ballet des petits poussins dans leurs coques. Scherzino: Vivo leggiero
  10. Pictures At An Exhibition: Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle. Andante
  11. Pictures At An Exhibition: Limoges: Le Marche. Allegretto vivio, sempre scherzando
  12. Pictures At An Exhibition: Catacombae: Sepulchrum Romanum. Largo
  13. Pictures At An Exhibition: Cum motuis in lingua mortua. Andante non troppo, con lamento
  14. Pictures At An Exhibition: La cabane de Baba Yaga sur des pattes de poule. Allegro con brio, feroce - Andante mosso - Allegro molto
  15. Pictures At An Exhibition: La grande porte de Kiev. Allegro alla breve. Maestoso. Con grandezza
  16. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Introduction
  17. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Les augures printaniers (Danses des adolescentes)
  18. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Jeu du rapt
  19. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Rondes printanieres
  20. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Jeux des cites rivales
  21. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Cortege du Sage
  22. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Adoration de la Terre (Le Sage)
  23. The Rite Of Spring: I. L'Adoration de la terre - Danse de la terre
  24. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Introduction
  25. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Cercles mysterieux des adolescentes
  26. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Glorification de l'Elue
  27. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Evocation des Ancetres
  28. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Action rituelle des ancetres
  29. The Rite Of Spring: II. Le Sacrifice - Danse Sacrale (L'Elue)

Music reviews of Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung

Music Review: "A pet savage rather than a real one," said Stravinsky
Rating: 4 Stars

Karajan made two recordings Le Sacre du Printemps. This is the first, recorded in the 1960s. It's is a famous recording because Stravinsky wrote about it rather critically though not as negatively as legend has it. Here's some of what he wrote:

"The recording is generally good, the performance generally odd, though polished in its own way; in fact, too polished, a pet savage rather than a real one. The sostenuto style is a principal fault; the lengths of notes are virtually the same here as they would be in Wagner or Brahms, which dampens the energy of the music and leaves what rhythmic enunciation there is sounding laboured. But I should have begun by saying that the music is alien to the culture of its performers. ... I doubt whether The Rite can be satisfactorily performed in terms of Herr von Karajan's traditions. I do not mean to imply that he is out of his depths, however, but rather that he is in my shallows -- or call them simple concretions and reifications. There are simply no regions for soul-searching in The Rite of Spring."

As a Karajan fan, though, I have to say that this recording is worth listening to on its own terms, which admittedly really aren't Stravinsky's. Stravinsky was right, it is very smoothed out. If Richard Strauss had ever tried to write something like this, this is what he would have wanted it to sound like. In its arguably wrong-headed way, it's beautifully done. So this shouldn't be your first or only Sacre, but it does have its fascination, especially at the low price.

A good choice for a first Sacre at a low price (or any price) is the Ozawa recording with the Chicago Symphony, which I find preferable to the first Boulez/Cleveland performance, also available at a low price. Bernstein's first recording (the one with the New York Philharmonic) was once available at a medium price but seems not to be available at the moment.

(By the way, Karajan made a second commercial recording of Sacre, which I find far more successful if still a bit smoothed-out, but some people really hate that recording. It can be found inexpensively in the Stravinsky Panorama two-CD set from Deutsche Grammophon, as well as on a single CD paired with Karajan's generally acclaimed Prokofiev Fifth.)

As for the Ravel orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition here, this is a lovely performance in the Karajan tradition. Of course, some love that tradition and some hate it.

At some of the climaxes, the sound is a bit harsh and glaring. I think the CD that pairs this recording with Karajan's recordings of Ravel's Bolero and Debussy's La Mer has a different remastering, but I haven't heard it.

Other well-regarded modestly priced recordings of Pictures include those by Reiner and Ormandy, but I must admit that this is not a favorite work of mine and I haven't heard those recordings. I got this primarily for the Sacre, just to hear what Stravinsky was talking about and because I like Karajan. At this super-low price, it's worth it.
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