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Thanks for the recommendations and for reminding me that I should have included vinyl in my list of formats (DUH!!). I'll put them both on my short list.
I just picked up the Michael Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony rendition RCA CD from 1996 which runs about 34 minutes and sounds pretty good. It's part of three disc set along with The Firebird and Pers
D'oh! That was me.
The best version I
I'm not sure whether or not I like it best of those in my collection, but Gergiev/Kirov/Philips is loud, relentless, and brutal. Which is what the ballet is all about - brutality. Hurwitz in Classics Today loathed it, but it claims a lot of my attention.
Other than that I find myself drawn to the Mackerras/London Philharmonic/EMI Eminence issue.
Hi, Jazzfan -- I have the Telarc (Maazel and the Cleveland) and Sony (Szell with the COLUMBIA, of all heresies!!), both on SACD. Maazel's is the more exciting -- I can't help but think Szell conducting his own boys and girls might have produced a transcendent version, but if he did this piece with his own orchestra, I don't know of any recordings of it. On LP, I have Haitink with the LPO. This one, for me, is the best sonically AND in terms of edge-of-the-seat dynamics and fire. The SACD version with Maazel has the added bonus of a superb reading of the Tchaikovsky 4th and, of course, that incredible Telarc bass. I haven't heard the others mentioned here, so I shall remain mute on those. Rock on? Hell, RUT on!! Cheers, Clifton.
BIS-SACD-1474
Total Time: 69'00 – Release: Feb 2011
EAN 7318599914749
http://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-15915/
Stravinsky: Petrushka; Rite of Spring/Litton SACD
Artistic Quality: 10
Sound Quality: 10