"Still only in his mid-twenties, Finnish conductor Wunderkind Klaus Mäkelä is making quite a name for himself. Here, as musical director of the Orchestre de Paris, he tackles two seminal works by Stravinsky, both written for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes ... and over 83 minutes of music on one CD is both generous and impressive ... I am only sorry to report, therefore, that ... the music is played as if it were familiar and routine, not as if it were newly minted and shocking; there is little sense of dread or threat [Le Sacre] ... The Firebird is similarly neatly executed but because the music is both in a less progressive idiom and narrates not a primitive human sacrifice but a fairy tale ... any lack of menace or abandon are less of an issue ... There is much subtle, delicate playing from the Parisian orchestra, particularly the flute and dynamics are cunningly shaded".