Music & Arts' Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Concert Performances 1951-1957 literally picks up where the previous release of this kind -- Igor Stravinsky Conducts His Own Works -- left off. Taken from radio tapes of concerts, primarily of German origin, these performances are lovingly restored by expert transfer engineer Maggi Payne. The entire first disc is devoted to Stravinsky's appearance with the South German Radio Orchestra in April 1955; the second begins with an incomplete Petrushka with the same orchestra in ...
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Music & Arts' Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Concert Performances 1951-1957 literally picks up where the previous release of this kind -- Igor Stravinsky Conducts His Own Works -- left off. Taken from radio tapes of concerts, primarily of German origin, these performances are lovingly restored by expert transfer engineer Maggi Payne. The entire first disc is devoted to Stravinsky's appearance with the South German Radio Orchestra in April 1955; the second begins with an incomplete Petrushka with the same orchestra in October 1951, Agon with them again in 1957, and finally a Pulcinella Suite with the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugarno, Switzerland, in 1954. Stravinsky's own shortcomings as a conductor -- which helps make his commercial recorded output for CBS Records the jumble that it is -- is well noted, and Frederick J. Maroth's excellently well-considered liner notes are not only up front about that, but addresses in some detail about the effect of Stravinsky's weaknesses on...
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