Ed Zubrow wrote:
>As for the Rite of Spring. I really enjoy the disc I have by Benjamin
>Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.
It's good to see another list-member mention this very special performance
of the Rite. It has been one of my favourites for several years (although
in another mail I did not mention it) and does, indeed, give a new insight
into the work. The tempi are very different - the Danse sacrale is taken
at a speed which approaches frenzy - but are all justified by the
piano-roll version, made under the direction of Stravinsky himself. It is
strange, then, that Stravinsky in his own recording does not take things at
quite such a breakneck speed.
Jonathan