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From: jak@adelie.UUCP (Jeff Kresch)
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Subject: Re: Stravinsky's Firebird
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 20:12:46 EST
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> >I am not familiar with any specific recordings of the full-length
> >original, but I am sure they are out there.  Look for Pierre Monteaux or
> >Ernest Ansermet conducting. - JAK
> 
>     Stravinky himself conducts the full Firebird score, recorded in the
>     60's on Columbia. I believe it has been released in several forms,
>     including in a boxed set with Petrouchka and the Rite of Spring. 
>     The sound quality is still fine.
>     
>     etc.

The problem with the Stravinsky recordings, aside from his
interpretation, is that they are not of the original versions, but
rather, of the revisions he did in the forties or thereabouts.  Although
he claimed that the revisions were not merely done for copyright
purposes, as some have claimed, the original versions of the early
ballets really required no improvement.  I don't think the revisions are
as good.

                                        They occasionally call me
                                        JAK