Stravinsky - Classical Music
Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss
Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Original Version); Petrushka (Revised 1947 Version)
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Firebird-Complete/Scherzo/Firework

2007 Issue of 22 CDs Filled with the Works of the Great Composer Drawn from the Vaults of Columbia Records. - $31.39
The Chopin Collection [Box Set]
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection - Amazon.com Exclusive

Considering that Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has been around for nearly a century, it's surprising that even today, conductors literally get lost while attempting to beat through it--and that goes for some of the biggest names. Difficult as the piece is, conductors have no excuse for major lapses, now that this recording is available for study. Bernstein not only keeps complete control of the complex rhythms and constantly-switching meters throughout the work but he also interprets it with fire and sweep and emotional versatility. The Firebird is equally breathtaking. It's priceless, too, for the fabulous horn solo played by the New York Philharmonic's legendary James Chambers. --Gwendolyn Freed - $6.49
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain
Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue/An American In Paris
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps

Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky Recorded Live in September 2007. The album comprises three of the five works by Stravinsky which contain the word `symphony' in their titles, including the Symphony in C which Sir Simon has never before performed and which the BPO haven't played for over 20 years. EMI. 2008. - $11.48
Schoenberg Violin Concerto Op.36/Sibelius Violin Concerto Op.47
Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 5
Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky & Lutoslawski
Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Symphony in 3 Movements
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets (Apollo, Agon, Orpheus)
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Keeping Score: Copland and the American Sound
Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music - Beethoven's Eroica
Gustav Mahler: Conducting Mahler/I Have Lost Touch With the World

Whatever the limitations of Stravinsky's baton technique, no one else on disc conjures the same bustling excitement at the outset of Petrouchka. Overlapping, polyrhythmic textures in Petrouchka and in Le Sacre du Printemps come off with Mozartian lucidity, Mendelssonian lightness, and, well, Stravinsky-esque rhythmic exactitude (notwithstanding a few hesitant entrances). The clarity partly stems from the composer's use of his leaner revised scores, helped by close-up, analytical mike work by CBS. There are, of course, slicker, more sonically opulent versions of these 20th century landmarks. And then there are Stravinsky's. --Jed Distler - $6.49
Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Firebird-Complete/Scherzo/Firework
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Boston Symphony was at the peak of its powers when it engaged the 34-year-old Seiji Ozawa for this 1969 recording of Petrushka, in which the orchestra's then 24-year-old assistant conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas, played the extensive solo piano part. Ozawa, in those years, was capable of striking sparks with any orchestra he faced, and there is a palpable sense of excitement to the Petrushka he uncorks here. The accounts of The Rite of Spring and Fireworks, recorded in 1968 with the Chicago Symphony, are equally dynamic and colorful. BMG's long-awaited 24/96 remastering unleashes the breathtakingly open sound of the original tapes for the first time on CD, and may require a volume cut to preserve peace with the neighbors. --Ted Libbey - $6.21