Stravinsky conducts "Sacre du Printemps" - 1929 - part 2

[Rockdrummer365]

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[Rockdrummer365]

With dinosaurs

[Rockdrummer365]

This was used in Fantasia. For the creation of the world sequence.

[juliaharlow6]

He did and he didn't (write it for a ballet). He definitely had the ballet in mind, the flow of the story, and telling that in the music, but Nijinsky choreographed to the music. The music was not written to a choreography. The music came first, then the choreography.

[fatovamingus]

I may be wrong, but Stravinsky did not write Le Sacre du Printemps for a ballet. Its tempo was eratic and undanceable and he was somewhat forced to slow it down by Diaghilev for a while until they broke. Ozawa's 68 recording was exactly what Stravinsky wanted. Check it out on my channel. Gergiev conducts this like a dirge. I don't know. I could be wrong but watch that clip of Stravinsky rushing through the end of The Firebird. -Fatova

[yanpan16]

thanks so much for putting this up! genius!

[meowkie]

I understand the "final draft" of the Rite of Spring -- that is, the draft Stravinsky never revised again -- never came until the end of the fifties. Is that true?? Because if so, I can believe it. If any conductor ever played the Spring Rounds this fast, they would be booed into oblivion.