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Sublime recording of Le Sacre !

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 01/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"To my mind there are just five superb and unbeatable recordings of Le Sacre du Prientemps each one with its own personality .



The first one with Pierre Monteux , Boston Symphony dated from 1958 .



The second performance belongs to Antal Dorati in a mono Mercury recording with the Minneapolis of the fifties .



The third reading (my favorite one) is a very hard to find recording of Michael Tilson Thomas and the Boston Symphony of 1971 .



The Fourth is a superb performance of Fricsay with Rias in the Fifties.



And finally this one of Markevitch and the Philarmonia Orchestra .



The trademark seal of this version is the pagan atmosphere , superb sonority and bitter disonances carefully underlined for this masterful conductor .



In fact Markevitch was -together with Ernest Ansermet- a real pioneer champion playing almost his entire repertoire . His harsh harmonies work out splendidly in Stravisnky .



If you really want to feel a real sensorial experience acquire this golden gem recording ."