Our Summer BAL 39- Stravinsky Petrushka

[Barbirollians]

Cannot see this has been on BAL for a while - no sign on Presto

Versions I suppose come up 1911 /1947 or a mixture

I have three I love

1911 Monteux- Boston SO

1947 CBSO/Rattle

and Dorati's Decca version where he generally used the 1947 but added some bits of 1911 he liked best !

[cloughie]

Cannot see this has been on BAL for a while - no sign on Presto

Versions I suppose come up 1911 /1947 or a mixture

I have three I love

1911 Monteux- Boston SO

1947 CBSO/Rattle

and Dorati's Decca version where he generally used the 1947 but added some bits of 1911 he liked best !

Like your choices, Barbs, but would suggest the Stereo Mercury Minneapolis Dorati but the one I love is CSO/Levine which for whatever reason has never appeared on CD.

[Petrushka]

My default recording is LSO/Abbado but BPO/Haitink and LPO/Haitink aren't far behind. I really love the return to the Shrovetide Fair in the 4th Tableau in the Abbado recording - it all goes with a tremendous swing and it's the 1911 version too.

[cloughie]

My default recording is LSO/Abbado but BPO/Haitink and LPO/Haitink aren't far behind. I really love the return to the Shrovetide Fair in the 4th Tableau in the Abbado recording - it all goes with a tremendous swing and it's the 1911 version too.

All sound choices Pet, but to my ears lack some of the raw passion Petrouchka needs - Mehta, Muti, Bernstein and Ansermet add this.

[Pulcinella]

Would love to rise to the bait and do the same for this as I did for the Symphony of Psalms, but time is too precious at present, I'm afraid, since I have just agreed to become Chairman of the trustees of a local charity (Cancer Support and Therapy Centre) and need to get up to speed with that!

From memory, I like the Boulez/Cleveland and Dutoit/LSO performances very much, both 1911; also Bernstein/NYPO, 1947.

Agree that `raw passion' is needed!
Looking forward to reading comments from others.

(Note: I have asked for thread title to be changed to 39, as we already have a 38!)

[HighlandDougie]

As I'm confined to base awaiting a delivery - and with apologies to EA for encroaching on his area of expertise - I've made a little list:

Claudio ABBADO/London SO
Henry ADOLPH/Philharmonia Slavonia
Karel ANCERL/Czech PO
Ernest ANSERMET (i) London PO; (ii) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Leonard BERNSTEIN (i) New York PO; (ii) Israel PO
Pierre BOULEZ (i) New York PO; (ii) Cleveland Orch.; (iii) Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo CHAILLY/Royal Concertgebouw Orch. (2 versions - Decca; RCO Live)
Robert CRAFT/Philharmonia Orch.
Oskar DANON/Royal PO
Colin DAVIS/Concertgebouw Orch.
Christoph von DOHNANYI/Vienna PO
Antal DORATI (i) Minneapolis SO; (ii) Detroit SO
Pierre-Michel DURAND/Czech PO
Charles DUTOIT (i) London SO; (ii) Montreal SO
Ivan FISCHER/Budapest Festival Orch
Thierry FISCHER/BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ferenc FRICSAY/RIAS Symphony Orch, Berlin
Rafael FRUHBECK DE BURGOS/ London SO
Daniele GATTI/Orchestre Nationale de France
Valery GERGIEV/World Orchestra for Peace
Carlo-Maria GIULINI/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Suite)
Eugene GOOSENS/ London SO
Bernard HAITINK (i) London PO; (ii) Berlin PO
Eliahu INBAL/Philharmonia Orch.
Konstantin IVANOV/USSR State SO
Hiroyuki IWAKI/Melbourne SO
Mariss JANSONS (i) Oslo PO; (ii) Royal Concertgebouw Orch
Naemi JARVI/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Paavo JARVI/Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra
Dimitri KITAENKO/Danish National Radio SO
Otto KLEMPERER/Philharmonia Orch.
Kiril KONDRASHIN/Concertgebouw Orch.
Serge KOUSSEVITZKY/Boston SO (excerpts)
Yakov KREIZBERG/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Eric KUJANDSKY/Redwoods SO
Efrem KURTZ/Philharmonia Orch.
Erich LEINSDORF/New Philharmonia Orch.
Andrew LITTON/Bergen PO
Lorin MAAZEL (i) Israel PO; (ii) Vienna PO
Charles MACKERRAS/London SO
Jerzy MAKSYMIUK/BBC Scottish SO
Zubin MEHTA/Los Angeles PO
Pierre MONTEUX (i) Paris Conservatoire Orch; (ii) Boston SO; (iii) Berlin PO
Yevgeny MRAVINSKY/Leninigrad PO
Riccardo MUTI/Philadelphia Orch.
Kent NAGANO/London SO
Sakari ORAMO/City of Birmingham SO
Seiji OZAWA/Boston SO
Dobrin PETKOV/Plovdiv PO
Alexander RAHBARI/Orchestre de la Radio et Television Belgique
Simon RATTLE/ City of Birmingham SO
Hans ROSBAUD/ Concertgebouw Orch.
Francois-Xavier ROTH/Les Siecles
Witold ROWICKI/Warsaw PO
Gennady ROZHDESTVENSKY/London SO
Esa-Pekka SALONEN/Philharmonia Orch.
Hermann SCHERCHEN/Royal PO
Gerard SCHWARZ/Seattle SO
Stanislaw SKROWACZEWSKI/Minnesota Orch.
George SOLTI (i) Chicago SO; (ii) London SO
Leopold STOKOWSKI (i) Philadelphia Orch.; (ii) Berlin PO (Suite)
Igor STRAVINSKY (i) “Symphony Orch” – excerpts; (ii) Columbia SO; (iii) Moscow PO (Suite)
Yevgeny SVETLANOV/Orchestre Nationale de la Radio France
Yuri TEMIRKNOV (i) Leningrad PO; (ii) Royal PO
Arturo TOSCANINI/NBC Symphony Orchestra (“Tableaux”)
Jaap VAN ZWEDEN/Netherlands Radio PO

No claims are being made for completeness!

Ansermet, Bernstein in New York, Kreizberg, Rosbaud but, above all, the recent version from Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth all do it for me.

[Petrushka]

Excellent list HD Mind, Abbado has inexplicably been left out.

I've purchased the Roth/Les Siecles disc but not listened to it yet.

[pastoralguy]

I've purchased the Roth/Les Siecles disc but not listened to it yet.

Please report back, Pertushka. This is on my wish list. I remember being very impressed with them at the Proms ?last year.

[richardfinegold]

As I'm confined to base awaiting a delivery - and with apologies to EA for encroaching on his area of expertise - I've made a little list:

Henry ADOLPH/Philharmonia Slavonia
Karel ANCERL/Czech PO
Ernest ANSERMET (i) London PO; (ii) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Leonard BERNSTEIN (i) New York PO; (ii) Israel PO
Pierre BOULEZ (i) New York PO; (ii) Cleveland Orch.
Riccardo CHAILLY/Royal Concertgebouw Orch. (2 versions - Decca; RCO Live)
Robert CRAFT/Philharmonia Orch.
Oskar DANON/Royal PO
Colin DAVIS/Concertgebouw Orch.
Christoph von DOHNANYI/Vienna PO
Antal DORATI (i) Minneapolis SO; (ii) Detroit SO
Pierre-Michel DURAND/Czech PO
Charles DUTOIT (i) London SO; (ii) Montreal SO
Ivan FISCHER/Budapest Festival Orch
Thierry FISCHER/BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ferenc FRICSAY/RIAS Symphony Orch, Berlin
Rafael FRUHBECK DE BURGOS/ London SO
Daniele GATTI/Orchestre Nationale de France
Valery GERGIEV/World Orchestra for Peace
Carlo-Maria GIULINI/Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Suite)
Eugene GOOSENS/ London SO
Bernard HAITINK (i) London PO; (ii) Berlin PO
Eliahu INBAL/Philharmonia Orch.
Konstantin IVANOV/USSR State SO
Hiroyuki IWAKI/Melbourne SO
Mariss JANSONS (i) Oslo PO; (ii) Royal Concertgebouw Orch
Naemi JARVI/Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Paavo JARVI/Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra
Dimitri KITAENKO/Danish National Radio SO
Otto KLEMPERER/Philharmonia Orch.
Kiril KONDRASHIN/Concertgebouw Orch.
Serge KOUSSEVITZKY/Boston SO (excerpts)
Yakov KREIZBERG/Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Eric KUJANDSKY/Redwoods SO
Efrem KURTZ/Philharmonia Orch.
Erich LEINSDORF/New Philharmonia Orch.
Andrew LITTON/Bergen PO
Lorin MAAZEL (i) Israel PO; (ii) Vienna PO
Charles MACKERRAS/London SO
Jerzy MAKSYMIUK/BBC Scottish SO
Zubin MEHTA/Los Angeles PO
Pierre MONTEUX (i) Paris Conservatoire Orch; (ii) Boston SO; (iii) Berlin PO
Yevgeny MRAVINSKY/Leninigrad PO
Riccardo MUTI/Philadelphia Orch.
Kent NAGANO/London SO
Sakari ORAMO/City of Birmingham SO
Seiji OZAWA/Boston SO
Dobrin PETKOV/Plovdiv PO
Alexander RAHBARI/Orchestre de la Radio et Television Belgique
Simon RATTLE/ City of Birmingham SO
Hans ROSBAUD/ Concertgebouw Orch.
Francois-Xavier ROTH/Les Siecles
Witold ROWICKI/Warsaw PO
Gennady ROZHDESTVENSKY/London SO
Esa-Pekka SALONEN/Philharmonia Orch.
Hermann SCHERCHEN/Royal PO
Gerard SCHWARZ/Seattle SO
Stanislaw SKROWACZEWSKI/Minnesota Orch.
George SOLTI (i) Chicago SO; (ii) London SO
Leopold STOKOWSKI (i) Philadelphia Orch.; (ii) Berlin PO (Suite)
Igor STRAVINSKY (i) “Symphony Orch” – excerpts; (ii) Columbia SO; (iii) Moscow PO (Suite)
Yevgeny SVETLANOV/Orchestre Nationale de la Radio France
Yuri TEMIRKNOV (i) Leningrad PO; (ii) Royal PO
Arturo TOSCANINI/NBC Symphony Orchestra (“Tableaux”)
Jaap VAN ZWEDEN/Netherlands Radio PO

No claims are being made for completeness!

Ansermet, Bernstein in New York, Kreizberg, Rosbaud but, above all, the recent version from Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth all do it for me.

Heroic work, HD. I learned the piece from the Ozawa recording and I still think it holds up well. MTT is the Pianist.

[Barbirollians]

As for the Roth record - positive reviews in Gramophone and IRR but SJ and AmcG were sniffy about it on CD Review as I recall .

[HighlandDougie]

Mind, Abbado has inexplicably been left out.

Not quite sure how that happened - now included. And as for AMcG and SJ on the Les Siecles disc, well whadda they know ......

[BBMmk2]

I have that complete Stravinsky Edition buit I do not have any others. Abbado always strikes a vein with me but 1911? Not sure.

[Bryn]

I have that complete Stravinsky Edition buit I do not have any others. Abbado always strikes a vein with me but 1911? Not sure.

But surely you would rather have a cornet than the trumpet of the1947 scaled down orchestration?

[Barbirollians]

I much prefer the 1911 version there is a warmth and passion to it .

[Barbirollians]

I am more than surprised that this wonderful piece has received so few contributions - perhaps a where is everyone thread ?