Stravinsky reviews
Eötvös • Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring etc
Isabelle Faust (violin); Orchestre de Paris/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi)
Virtuoso Dances
Linus Roth (violin), José Gallardo (piano) (Evil Penguin)
French Duets
Steven Osborne, Paul Lewis (piano) (Hyperion)
Silver Age (Daniil Trifonov)
Daniil Trifonov (piano); Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev
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Nathanäel Gouin (piano), Astrig Siranossian (cello), Daniel Barenboim (piano) (Alpha Classics)
Rossini • Stravinski: Petrushka, etc
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx Classics)
Bruckner • Stravinsky: Masses
Berlin Radio Choir; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Gijs Leenaars (Pentatone)
Mythes: Works by Bartók, Ravel, Stravinsky et al
Jiyoon Lee, Henry Kramer (Champs Hill)
Stravinsky: Music for Violin, Vol 2
Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul; Galicia Symphony Orchestra/Dima Slobodeniouk (BIS)
Works by Sibelius, Stravinsky & Pei Lu
Zhi-Jong Wang; Philharmonia Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling (Accentus Music)
Stravinsky: Solo Piano Music
Oxana Shevchenko (Delphian)
Exiles in Paradise
Brinton Averil Smith (cello), Evelyn Chen (piano) (Naxos)
Russian Visions
Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Alissa Firsova (piano) (SOMM Recordings)
Works by Haydn, Ravel & Stravinsky
Tesla Quartet (Orchid Classics)
Stravinsky: Petrushka; Jeu de cartes
Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky)
Stravinsky: Perséphone
Andrew Staples, Pauline Cheviller; Finnish National Opera Chorus, Children’s Chorus & Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Pentatone)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d’Or Suite; Stravinsky: The Firebird
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx)
Reformation: Works by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky et al
Daniel Frankel, Yiva Larsdotter, Samuel Coppin, John Axelsson, Tom Poulson; Västerås Sinfonietta/Simon Crawford-Phillips (dB Productions)
Suite Italienne: Works by Respighi; Stravinsky & Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi (DG)
Daniele Gatti and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform Debussy and Stravinsky
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Daniele Gatti (RCO Live)
Ravel: Miroirs, etc; Stravinsky: The Firebird, etc
Beatrice Rana (piano) (Waner Classics)
Chailly and Lucerne Festival Orchestra perform Stravinsky
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Symphonic Psalms and Prayers: Bernstein, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Zemlinsky
David Allsopp (countertenor); Tenebrae; BBC Symphony Orchestra/Nigel Short (Signum)
Vasily Petrenko conducts a celebration of Spring
Spring is the theme of three relatively youthful works. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring provides the substantive, cathartic climax, but Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) preface it with two lesser known pieces by Rachmaninov and Debussy. Petrenko is a convincing advocate for the latter’s Printemps, an attractive work that, despite several moments that are prophetic of the composer’s mature style, struggles to establish its distinctiveness.