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Stravinsky: The Firebird

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Recorded live at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, this album was captured during Valery Gergiev's penultimate concert as LSO Principal Conductor. A selection of repertoire that always fires the Russian's imagination, it's a perfect example of the best music making his relationship with the Orchestra could produce.

Stravinsky’s Firebird was an instant hit with audience and critics alike at its 1910 premiere and has retained this popularity throughout the following century. 

The legacy of Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3 and The Miraculous Mandarin are similarly exalted. Piano Concerto No 3 is Bartók’s final work, performed here by legendary soloist Yefim Bronfman, having been completed only four days before the composer succumbed to a long battle with leukaemia, while The Miraculous Mandarin, performed here in the suite version, is dramatic, mysterious and sinister.

In addition, this release features the encore performance of the second suite from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Composers Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Performers London Symphony Orchestra
Soloist Yefim Bronfman

1-3. Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (Op. 19, BB 82)
4-6. Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127
7-15. Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete version, 1910)
16. Prokofiev: Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64ter

Release date 14 October 2016
LSO5078 | 822231507826

Engineers NYPR
Post-production & mastering Classic Sound Ltd
Recorded live on 24 October 2015 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center by WQXR, New York's Classical Station

Notes in English / en français / auf Deutsch

FLAC - 24bit 96kHz - Compatible with Windows and Android devices
MP3 - 320kbps - Universal compatibility
CD - Compatible with all CD players

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Reviews

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**** ‘The complete Firebird, long a Gergiev speciality, seems here even more sharply defined that earlier accounts – with, for instance, illuminating attention paid to the curious Allegro rapace marking of the Firebird’s dance. And the combination of largeness of scale and extreme tonal refinement of Yefim Bronfman’s solo Bartok playing is answered with wonderful specificity by conductor and orchestra.’

- BBC Music Magazine
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This one’s a cracker, a double-CD, recorded live in New Jersey by New York’s classical radio station, with the LSO on tour and Gergiev flying in repertoire he has made his own.

- Herald Scotland
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