Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
The Firebird Suite (1919)	Igor Stravinsky	Listen

Reviews

• …a gripping account of Stravinsky’s concert extractions from his 1910 ballet score. Mariss Jansons inspires a scrupulous and magical account, one teeming with fantasy, colour and expressive solos, and after such ravishing tenderness the ‘Infernal Dance’ makes an impact with its measured incisiveness and gathering menace. The finale is triumphant without being bombastic… Jansons restores freshness and enchantment to this often-played music.
  Colin Anderson, International Record Review, 01 January 2006
• The Stravinsky Firebird Suite that precedes the Schedrin is no mere aperitif. Luxuriously recorded in the Munich's Philharmonie am Gasteig, it not only demonstrates Jansons's orchestra responding so incisively and imaginatively to his direction, but also highlights interesting textural details that are not always captured on other recordings.
  Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine, 01 October 2005