Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov, Igor Stravinsky
Performer: Emily Beynon, Frits Damrow, Jeroen Bal
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: RCO Live
Catalogue: RCO05004
Release: 2005
Size: 1.06 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Stravinsky: Petrushka (Live)
01. Pt. 1: The Shrovetide Fair
02. Pt. 1: Russian Dance
03. Pt. 2: Petrushka’s Room
04. Pt. 3: The Blackamoor
05. Pt. 3: Valse
06. Pt. 4: The Shrovetide Fair
07. Pt. 4: Wet Nurses’ Dances
08. Pt. 4: Peasant with Bear
09. Pt. 4: Gypsies and a Rake Vendor
10. Pt. 4: Dance of the Coachmen
11. Pt. 4: Masquerades
12. Pt. 4: The Scuffle
13. Pt. 4: The Death of Petrushka
14. Pt. 4: Police and the Juggler
15. Pt. 4: Apparition of Petrushka’s Double
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (Live)
16. I. Non allegro
17. II. Andante con moto
18. III. Lento assai
Perhaps the best super audio orchestral sound today is coming out of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam where RCO Live is recording performances by Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra that sound more real than real. The balance, the blend, the depth, the detail, the sense of space and time, the sense of immediacy and honesty all make these recordings among the most successful ever made. The works they’ve chosen to record so far have all been warhorses — previous issues have been of Dvorák’s Ninth and Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben — but the performances themselves are so superlative and the sound is so stunning that only a curmudgeon would begrudge them. This disc couples two modernist Russian masterpieces — Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances — in performances as finely sculpted, as dazzlingly colored, and as drivingly rhythmic as the finest ever recorded. Jansons, surely one of the best conductors of our time, leads the super-virtuoso Concertgebouw in performances that are as impressive technically as they are interpretively. Everything in Stravinsky and Rachmaninov’s scores from the most complex polytonality to the lushest nostalgic sonority is articulated in these performances and captured in these recordings, and anyone fond of either work need not hesitate.
many thx – almost all RCO LIVE releases here only minor compilations and as far as I can see only these are missing:
WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer Nelsons RCO Live
The Radio Recordings – Harnoncourt RCO Live \ just released 15 CDs Box set
they didn’t publish a digital release of Harnoncourt