Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy is Sony Classics' massive Stravinsky box of 22 CDs, released in 1991 at a faint-inducing price point. The vast majority of Stravinsky's recordings were made for CBS Masterworks starting in 1957 -- when he was 75 years old -- and extending to 1967, when he made his last public appearances. Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy includes, in one way or another, some 90 percent of the music Stravinsky is known to have composed. Save the inclusion of both The Firebird Ballet and its ...
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Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy is Sony Classics' massive Stravinsky box of 22 CDs, released in 1991 at a faint-inducing price point. The vast majority of Stravinsky's recordings were made for CBS Masterworks starting in 1957 -- when he was 75 years old -- and extending to 1967, when he made his last public appearances. Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy includes, in one way or another, some 90 percent of the music Stravinsky is known to have composed. Save the inclusion of both The Firebird Ballet and its corresponding suite, alternate incarnations of works are not found here; the dreaded, posthumously discovered Sonata in F sharp minor for piano is likewise lacking, but so are several of Stravinsky's other piano pieces and the Three Pieces for String Quartet. Apart from that, Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy runs the Stravinskïan gamut, from the opera of The Rake's Progress in its entirety to Epitaphium, a late career tidbit lasting all of 70 seconds. There are some stunning gems here --...
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