Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps

Gergiev cond. LSO

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Music

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• Igor Stravinsky

[herol64700]

far too slow for me

[friendant72]

great! but can you sync the audio and video?

[roundtheblock1]

I much prefer listening to "The Rite of Spring" or "Petrushka" as absolute music rather than program music. Generally speaking, I find dancers an annoyance. Music is what music is "about." I first explored classical music in my 20's, and an LP I devoured was excerpts from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" which I listened to AS ABSOLUTE MUSIC -- appropriately, considering the place of the work in tonal music. The same, of course, goes for Stravinsky's two significant works. Yes, it's tonal.

[mrbassooner1]

This is far and away my favorite performance of Le Sacre that I've found. Valery Gergiev is the best living interpreter of Stravinsky's ballets. I saw him in the States conducting the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra performing Mahler's 5th.

Thank you very much for putting it all up in one video.