Best overall Stravinski - Rites of Spring...

Which in your opinion is the best overall - performance, sound - vinyl press of this masterpiece?

go4vinyl05-24-2013 1:43am

learsfool Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,215 posts 05-25-2013 at 03:25am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I second Frogman's suggestion of the Stravinsky recording on Columbia. Also, another great one is Montreal's with Charles Dutoit conducting.
goofyfoot Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,380 posts 05-25-2013 at 06:12am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Andante released a three volume collection of Stravinsky performances as remastered CD's. The majority of these recordings are live with Stravinsky conducting. Volume III is most, if not all, Leonard Bernstein at the podium. Volume I is difficult to come across.
rushton Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,445 posts 05-25-2013 at 11:16pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete fyi... for those looking for the Bernstein, it's just been reissued on vinyl: http://www.elusivedisc.com/STRAVINSKY-LE-SACRE-DU-PRINTEMPS-180g-LP/productinfo/SONLP47633/ .