Release Date: 30 August 2010
Label: Br Klassik - Mid Price / BR Klassik
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4035719007060
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Stravinsky
Description
Under Lorin Maazel, who held the Chief Conductor position from 1993 to 2002, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks reached a new level of performance culture, precision and flexibility. Like no other conductor, Maazel is capable of masterfully handling large-dimensioned works and performing music tightly packed with emotional content clear-headedly to make its effect even greater. The works on this CD mark two key moments in Stravinsky's development as a composer during the period before the First World War. The ballet music for L'oiseau de feu (The Firebird) contains many of the attributes that had made the Sacre such a scandalous avant-garde event in the Paris of 1913: unprecedented sound colours, rapidly changing rhythms, orgiastic climaxes and an exotic subject matter. Lorin Maazel and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - a dream combination for Stravinsky's sensuous and rhythmically irresistible ballet works.
Tracklisting
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Simon Rattle
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Sir Colin Davis
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Nathalie Stutzmann; Tolzer Knabenchor; Mariss Jansons
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Bernard Haitink
Horn section of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Hans Hotter; Lilian Benningsen; Hermann Prey; Fritz Wunderlich; Ingeborg Hallstein; Eva Maria Rogne
Christopher Maltman; Rachael Wilson; Benjamin Bruns; Munchner Rundfunkorchester; Patrick Hahn
VONDUNG/ARMAN/BR CHOIR
