The firebird
Igor Stravinskij
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Reviews (7)
The guardian
d. 10. Jan. 2018
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Andrew Clements (musikanmelder)
d. 10. Jan. 2018
"What makes Chant Funèbre so fascinating is not that it illuminates more detail of Stravinsky's journey towards the three ballet scores for Diaghilev that would make his name, but how it reveals a path he would not explore any further ... Chailly follows it with three other early pieces ... The whole sequence, brilliantly coloured and played with immaculate precision by the LFO, takes up half of this disc".
Klassik heute
d. 20. Feb. 2018
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Christoph Schlüren
d. 20. Feb. 2018
"Klassik Heute Empfehlung: Alle diese Stücke sind mit höchstem instrumentalen Können und grosser Hingabe gespielt, und Riccardo Chailly kommt seine lebenslange intensiv gepflegte Erfahrung mit der klassischen Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts zugute ... Jeder, der wirklich interessiert an Strawinsky oder allgemein der Musik des vergangenen Jahrhunderts ist, kommt um den Erwerb dieser CD nicht herum. Auch wenn die wiederentdeckte Ode sicher noch feinsinniger und schwereloser in den Übergängen realisieren werden kann, so wird hier doch ein repräsentativer und attraktiver Eindruck vom so lange verschollenen frühen Meisterwerk vermittelt".
Presto classical
d. 12. Jan. 2018
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James Longstaffe
d. 12. Jan. 2018
"Presto recording of the week: Yes, you read that correctly: a world premiere recording of a piece by Stravinsky! ... You can tell that [Chant funèbre] was written only a year or so before The Firebird: the mournful double basses in the very first bar sound like they could have come straight from the later work. It's a magnificent piece, and it's thrilling to hear it finally ... The level of detail [in The Rite] is quite extraordinary: the myriad woodwind lines that often get buried in the mix can be effortlessly heard".
Politiken
d. 27. Feb. 2018
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Thomas Michelsen
d. 27. Feb. 2018
"I en usædvanlig vellykket optagelse med La Scala-operaens musikchef, Riccardo Chailly, hvor hvert instrument i det enorme orkester høres klart, kommer både det brutale og det raffinerede i Stravinskys partitur til sin ret ... Hans modne tag på det ikoniske partitur, og det er sanseligt, skarpt og uhyggeligt ... har en kropslighed, der er vidunderlig".
BBC music magazine
2018 April
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Christopher Dingle
2018 April
"For Stravinsky aficionados, this is like finding the Holy Grail. The existence of the composer's Op. 5 ... has long been known about ... Then ... and eagle-eyed librarian spotted the title page of a flute part. Musically, it is a crucial missing link in tracing the young Stravinsky's erratic route towards compositional maturity ... Riccardo Chailly draws scintillating colours from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in these early works ... Fascinating".
Klassisk
2018, nr. 50
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Jeppe Rönnow
2018, nr. 50
"Chant Funébre ... blev kun opført én gang ... derefter forsvandt partituret ... indtil en dag i 2015, da konservatoriet i Skt. Petersborg skulle hovedrenoveres: Alle orkesterstemmerne dukkede mirakuløst op ... Først nu foreligger en cd-indspilning med Chailly og Lucerne Festivalorkester. Og den italienske dirigent for noget andet og mere værdifuldt frem ... fremdrift men også åndelighed ... Chailly har den helt rette forståelse ... og også derfor er udgivelsen et køb eller en lytning værd".
The gramophone
2018 February
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Mark Pullinger
2018 February
"Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity ... It's a very good performance [of The Rite] ... Chailly elicits a rhythmic grip on 'The Augurs of Spring' and keeps the 'Spring Rounds' flowing nicely, driving the finale to its exhausted collapse".