Igor Stravinsky's contributions to the ballet genre almost single-handedly lifted it to the front ranks of musical forms in the twentieth century. From The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring through Apollo, Agon, and Orpheus, Stravinsky's ballets are milestones in the history of musical modernism, and thus the question is not "should one hear recordings of the master's ballet?" but "whose recordings of the master's ballets should one hear?" One could go for the modern recordings by Boulez or the classic recordings ...
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Igor Stravinsky's contributions to the ballet genre almost single-handedly lifted it to the front ranks of musical forms in the twentieth century. From The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring through Apollo, Agon, and Orpheus, Stravinsky's ballets are milestones in the history of musical modernism, and thus the question is not "should one hear recordings of the master's ballet?" but "whose recordings of the master's ballets should one hear?" One could go for the modern recordings by Boulez or the classic recordings by Ansermet. Or one could go for the arguably definitive recordings by Stravinsky himself who recorded most of his ballets several times, the final, most complete set of performances taped in splendid stereo sound for Columbia. Or one could go for the definitive recordings by Robert Craft, Stravinsky's amanuensis, editor and, in the master's final years, his most faithful interpreter. Craft recorded virtually all of Stravinsky's music in the '90s and early 2000s for the Koch and...
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