BaL 8.07.23 - Stravinsky: Petrushka

[Maclintick]

Maybe Richard S. Ginell's Third Ear review killed it?: "Nagano goes nowhere; all the life and dance feeling are sucked away with leisurely tempos, little rhythmic definition and an obsession with refinement, refinement, refinement...".

Listening to the winner in full, while writing this, I have a feeling the same might be said for Chailly (who Ginell doesn't mention in his lengthy review that includes 20 performances.) I find myself craving Stravinsky's own Sony performance of the 1947 version

I have Chailly's version, but I've hardly ever played it, & concur with your inference that it's too well-mannered and polished compared with both the composer's 1960 recording or indeed NYPO/Bernstein which convey a rougher-edged folkiness appropriate to the piece. I had high hopes for Les Siècles, but was put off by the sound, not of the 1911 period instruments, but by a hollowness I take to be characteristic of the recording venue.

[Barbirollians]

Souns like a dreadful BAl and i was much better sheltering from the rain under the stand at Headingley.

[Bryn]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewnv9r

[Darloboy]

I haven't been on the forum for a while but given the criticisms of this baL, thought it worth adding my usual list of previous winners:

Paul Griffiths (June 84): Dutoit (1st choice: 1911 version) + Rosbaud (1947 choice) and IPO/Bernstein (1947 score in full choice)
Roger Nichols (November 85): Dutoit
Martin Cotton (November 14): Rattle (1947 version) + Abbado for the 1911 version + the Roth period version was rated highly