Jurowski conducts Stravinsky (Vol. 1)
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LPO-0123
2 audio CD
Made in the United Kingdom
℗ 2022 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
© 2022 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
Recorded at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 24 September 2008 (The Rite of Spring), 3 February 2018 (Symphony in E flat, The Faun and the Shepherdess) & 7 February 2018 (Scherzo fantastique, Funeral Song, The Firebird).
Producers: Andrew Walton, K&A Productions (CD1 & CD2 01–14); Nicholas Parker (CD2 tracks 15–28)
Engineers: Deborah Spanton, K&A Productions (CD1 & CD2 tracks 01–14); Mike Hatch, Floating Earth (CD2 tracks 15–28)
Publishers: Symphony in E flat: Rob. Forberg Musikverlag GmbH
The Faun and the Shepherdess: Belaieff
Scherzo fantastique & The Firebird: Schott Music Ltd
Funeral Song & The Rite of Spring: Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Total playing time: 146:56
Released: 15 July 2022
CD: Jurowski conducts Stravinsky (Vol. 1)
Gramophone's Top 20 Stravinsky Recordings (March 2024)
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in E flat, Op. 1
The Faun and the Shepherdess, Op. 2
Scherzo fantastique, Op. 3
Funeral Song, Op. 5
The Firebird (original 1910 version)
The Rite of Spring
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Angharad Lyddon mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Pieter Schoeman leader
Vladimir Jurowski was the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Conductor for 14 years from 2007–21, during which his creative energy and artistic rigour were central to the Orchestra’s success. This release captures three of his most memorable concerts with the Orchestra, tracing Stravinsky’s early creative journey from his youth amid the glittering fairytales of Imperial Russia through to those incredible moments in Paris when The Firebird and The Rite of Spring exploded in a blaze of rhythm and colour.
Chosen as one of Gramophone’s ‘Top 20 Stravinsky Recordings’, March 2024
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Reviews
It is The Firebird and The Rite that give this disc its heft – the former lush; limpid and sinuous, and the latter a performance thrilling in its violence and intensity.
The Sunday Times (Classical Album of the Week)
The Rite of Spring is assured from the start, woodwind timbres gleaming … I’d certainly want to hear it again.
BBC Music Magazine
A fine start to what could become an important series of Stravinsky recordings
Andrew Clements, The Guardian (Classical Recording of the Week)
Vladimir Jurowski has left the London Philharmonic in fine fettle after a decade as Chief Conductor, if these recordings are anything to go by.
Limelight Magazine
Remarkably detailed playing
Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
Recommendable performances, not least a thrilling Rite of Spring
Colin Anderson, Colin's Column (Record of the Month, July 2022)
The biggest revelations come with The Rite of Spring ... for it is swifter and more impulsive and even lighter on its feet than many of its rivals.
Gramophone (Editor's Choice, Sep 2022)
The LPO is in great shape.
Crescendo Magazine (review in French)
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