Rite of Spring

by Igor Stravinsky / Philharmonia Orchestra / Igor Markevitch

Rite of Spring cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1960
  • Label: Angel
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 32:10
  • Community rating: 4.22/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Regarded as one of the most blistering and savage interpretations of the notoriously difficult ballet score, this recording highlights the music's brutal, primitive power. The conductor masterfully emphasizes the violent dissonance and jarring rhythmic shifts that famously incited a riot during the work's 1913 premiere.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, avant-garde, scary, complex, rhythmic, uncommon-time-signatures, orchestral, dissonant, polyrhythmic, suite

Tracklist

  1. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Introduction (3:49)
  2. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Les Augures printaniers. Danses des adolescentes (3:01)
  3. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Jeu du rapt (1:20)
  4. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Rondes printani猫res (3:33)
  5. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Jeux des cit茅s rivales (1:50)
  6. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Cort猫ge du sage (0:40)
  7. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Adoration de la Terre. Le Sage (0:22)
  8. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 1 "L'Adoration de la Terre": Danse de la Terre (1:08)
  9. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": Introduction (3:42)
  10. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": Cercles myst茅rieux des adolescentes (2:55)
  11. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": Glorification de l'茅lue (1:30)
  12. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": 脡vocation des anc锚tres (0:47)
  13. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": Action rituelle des anc锚tres (3:06)
  14. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, Pt. 2 "Le Sacrifice": Danse sacrale. L'脡lue (4:22)

Credits

  • Igor Stravinsky - primary artist, composed by
  • Igor Markevitch - primary artist, conductor
  • Philharmonia Orchestra - primary artist

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