20% Off Album of the Week - The Rite of Spring (Live)
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Our Album of the Week is Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti. This release from the orchestra's RCO Live label was recorded live in DXD at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 11, 12 & 19 January 2017 using the Horus Analog to Digital Converter from Merging Technologies. This is a DSD Exclusive, Not Available on SACD release.
RCO Live says "Ever since its scandalous 1913 premiere the orchestra repertoire wouldn't be complete without Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra archive alone lists 118 performances since 1924, when Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Paris premiere, led the orchestra.
Stravinsky made his first guest appearance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1924, after which he returned regularly. He conducted his Sacre twice in a single day in 1926. Long and loud ovations followed."
Roy Westbrook from MusicWeb International says "With Le Sacre du Printemps Gatti takes a fairly traditional approach to tempi in the score, but that does not imply complacency – he is rhythmically very alert.
The famous opening bassoon solo, along with its clarinet and horn counterpoint, is up to the high standards from these sections heard all through the evening. The ‘Dance of the Adolescents’ is fast and balletic and the players shape its solo moments convincingly.
The solo horn at Fig. 25 is really excellent, observing the mezzopiano and subsequent piano markings. Le Sacre should often sing as well as dance, as it does here. Gatti does not, as say Teodor Currentzis did in his 2015 CD, overdo the primeval blood sport aspects of the more violent passages such as the ‘Dance of the Earth’ that closes the first part. The eerie Largo introduction to Part Two, the most Debussian passage in the score, is poetically atmospheric, and indeed this second part is very compelling right up to the final ‘Sacrificial Dance’.
Above all Gatti is a sure guide through these demanding works – he uses no score for any of them – and the orchestra plays immaculately throughout. Many orchestral concert albums are at least an enjoyable souvenir of a live occasion. But this RCO Live issue has performances good enough to take it into another league."
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