There can be no doubt that Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra want to incite a revolution, especially among western audiences who think they already know the Russian repertoire. These fiery performances of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy may go far to change the ways the pieces are performed and understood, especially since both works are delivered here with overwhelming force and persuasive confidence. If the Rite of Spring has become too familiar from the dreary and mutilated version used in ...
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There can be no doubt that Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra want to incite a revolution, especially among western audiences who think they already know the Russian repertoire. These fiery performances of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy may go far to change the ways the pieces are performed and understood, especially since both works are delivered here with overwhelming force and persuasive confidence. If the Rite of Spring has become too familiar from the dreary and mutilated version used in Disney's Fantasia, or seems tame in other performances, including Stravinsky's own, then Gergiev's devastating rendition will come as a welcome alternative. This is what all the fuss was about when the audience rioted at the 1913 premiere. Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra deliver the work in all its savage splendor, with a sense that the score holds more power than anyone previously suspected. Similarly, if the Poem of Ecstasy's excessive fervor and messianic outbursts have been...
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