Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 Adelie 8/14/85; site adelie.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!adelie!jak From: jak@adelie.UUCP (Jeff Kresch) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Stravinsky's Firebird Message-ID: <530@adelie.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 20:12:46 EST Article-I.D.: adelie.530 Posted: Tue Nov 5 20:12:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 06:42:39 EST References: <3041@sdcc3.UUCP> <501@adelie.UUCP> <612@spar.UUCP> Organization: Adelie Corporation, Newtonville MA Lines: 22 > >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