classical music: firebird-complete

classical music: firebird-complete

classical music:

Firebird-complete

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet, 1910) / Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus - The Poem of Fire - ...

Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, ...

Philips, 1998

Incandescent!
As we are treated to more of Valery Gergiev's interpretations in recordings his gifts as a conductor and energizer of orchestras become more and more obvious. This FIREBIRD soars like a mltiheaded hydra out of the always electrical fire Gerviev smolders in his ...

Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Firebird-Complete/Scherzo/Firework

I. Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Sony, 1990

The Definitive "Firebird"!!
There are numerous recordings available of Igor Stravinsky's ballet masterwork "The Firebird" however, the 1961 "Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky" recording available on this disc is one that eclipses all other versions. The recording was performed by The Columbia ...

Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: The American Recordings 1940-46 - Le Sacre du Printemps (Complete Ballet) / ...

Igor Stravinsky, Bert Gassman, ...

Pearl, 1997

There's something you should know before buying this.
This music was recorded between 1940 and 1946. It says so on the cover, but it's illegible in the tiny little picture Amazon gives you. The recordings are monaural and very noisy. They sound very much like they were recorded in 1940. So while the CD has historical and ...

Stravinsky, Shostakovich: Bernstein's Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Paul Hudson, Dmitry Shostakovich, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Always Good to Study Bernstein Again
Now that Leonard Bernstein has entered the canonization of American conductors it is healthy to review his recorded output to understand the impact he had on classical music in America (and the world, for that matter). Not all of Bernstein's recordings are worthy of ...

Minnesota Orchestra Showcase

Dominick Argento, Leonard Bernstein, ...

Reference Recordings, 2000

MN Orchestra is the best...
..ofcourse in my fair and unbiased opinion :) But seriously this is fine music, fine recording, fine orchestra..it doesn't get much better than this. 5 stars!

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Original Version); Petrushka (Revised 1947 Version)

Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, ...

Naxos, 2005

Stupendous Performances in Brilliant Sound
[This review was written for the SACD version of this release. I have not heard this purely plain-CD version, but I did listen to the plain-CD layer of the SACD release which I trust is virtually identical to this release.] There have, of course, been many ...

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks [Hybrid SACD]

Igor Stravinsky, Antal Dorati, ...

Philips, 2004

Analog to SACD done right!
This new release of this near-legendary 1959 Dorati/LSO performance goes to the head of the class. Using the earlier CD release as a sonic guide (the series was originally overseen by Wilma Cozart Fine), Universal's audio engineers have, again, given us a nearly ...

Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks; Song of the Nightingale

Igor Stravinsky, Antal Dorati, ...

Philips, 1991

Unsurpassed.
There is only one word to describe Dorati's recording of The Firebird, definitive. No one before or since has managed to combine the delicate almost impressionist passages of the score with the violence of the infernal dance to such tremendous effect. Stravinsky's ...

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet, Original Version 1910) / Symphonies of Wind Instruments - ...

Igor Stravinsky (Composer), Kent Nagano (Conductor), ...

Virgin Records Us, 1994

Favorite Firebird
I'm afraid I don't have the technical depth in classical music to esplain why, but this is my favorite recording of the Firebird. I have listened to a lot of classical music, but have no training, so while I don't know why I like one thing better than another, I know ...