Claudio Abbado - London Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky: Petrushka (The Original Source Series) 180g LP

100% Pure Analogue 180g Virgin Vinyl LP!

DG's The Original Source Series!

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Petrushka is one of three innovative ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky during his 'Russian' period. With Petrushka, Stravinsky showed his neo-folkloric side and brought a colourful street crowd with a magician and his puppets, merchants and mummies to the ballet stage. In doing so, he showed the world that funfair and classical music are not contradictory, and his audience now heard folk music from a new perspective.

This is one of the few Deutsche Grammophon productions from 1980 in which digital 2-track and analogue 8-track were recorded in parallel. By using the analogue 8-track master, this release now makes the recording available in purely analogue form for the very first time.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl records and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Features

The Original Source Series

100% Pure Analogue

180g Virgin Vinyl LP

Mixed by Rainer Maillard & Cut by Sidney C. Meyer Directly from the Original 1 inch 8-track Tapes at Emil Berliner Studios

Pressed by Optimal

Deluxe Gatefold

Musicians

London Symphony Orchestra  

Claudio Abbado conductor

Selections

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

SIDE A:

SCENE 1

Ia. The Shrovetide Fair - The Crowds - The Conjuring-Trick

Ib. Russian Dance

SCENE 2

II. Petrushka's Room

SIDE B:

SCENE 3

IIIa. The Moor's Room - IIIb. Dance of the Ballerina

IIIc. Waltz. The Ballerina and the Moor

SCENE 4

IVa. The Shrovetide Fair (Evening)

IVb. Dance of the Wet-Nurses

IVc. Dance of the Peasant and the Bear

IVd. The Jovial Merchant with 2 Gypsy Girls

IVe. Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms

IVf. The Masqueraders

IVg. The Scuffle

IVh. Death of Petrushka

IVi. The Police and the Charlatan

IVj. Apparition of Petrushka's Ghost