Lorin Maazel / Christoph Von Dohnanyi

Stravinsky / Bartok: Ballet Music (2CD)

Stravinsky’s ground-breaking trilogy of Diaghilev commissions plus a scandalous Bartók ballet, treated to sumptuous late-70s Decca engineering and the Vienna Philharmonic sound.

TRACK LIST

CD 1

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)
1–14 L’Oiseau de feu The Firebird (1910 version) Wiener Philharmoniker Christoph von Dohnányi
15–28 Le Sacre du printemps The Rite of Spring (1921 version) Wiener Philharmoniker Lorin Maazel

CD 2

1–4 Petrouchka Petrushka (1947 version) Wiener Philharmoniker Horst Göbel, piano Christoph von Dohnányi BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945)
5–6 Two Portraits, Sz. 37 (Op. 5) Wiener Philharmoniker Erich Binder, solo violin Christoph von Dohnányi
7–16 The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz. 73 (Op. 19) Chor der Wiener Staatsoper (chorus master: Helmut Froschauer) Wiener Philharmoniker Christoph von Dohnányi