Thanks Gary,
Last month I spent several days attempting to correct and fill-in the massive amount of missing information (not just discography data, but loads of works-based info, performer info, etc.) that Sony couldn’t be bothered to supply its customers with in the 2007, 22 disc reissue set. Thanks very much for the correction on the Petrushka (Pétrouchka), scènes burlesques, recording from 1960. Philip Stuart’s “Igor Stravinsky: The Composer in the Recording Studio”; Greenwood Press 1991, is currently selling for $79.26 on the ABE Books (one of Amazon’s many possessions) search engine — a standard price for small print runs on works of discography. I think I’ll just make your correction and hope there aren’t too many other mistakes in the sad and small Sony data set.
Thanks also to Randy Lane for the reminder on Andreas Meyer’s 2013 remastering efforts for “Vesna svyashchennaya" (Le sacre du printemps). This set is still widely available.
By the time I had reached the hour mark on time it took to reassemble the performance data on “The Flood”, the realization came that a point of mediocrity had finally been reached in the many works of this composer. Awareness of a great deal of repertoire leads (IMHO) to the conclusion that all composers eventually reach that point. Not surprising really. “Genius” is an artificial construct. Probably more accurate to describe these people as supremely gifted and talented, but still human-beings.
Warm regards,
Alex McGehee
Igor Stravinsky--The Composer in the Recording Studio
> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:44 PM, Gary A. Galo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Ben,
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> The last of his three commercial recordings was made with the New York Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Jan 5-6, 1960 in the St. Georges Hotel Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY. The last live performance to have been recorded and issued was with the Sept. 24, 1961 performance with the Swedish Radio Orchestra, issued on Discocorp LP RR-224. The flip side of that LP contains part of a rehearsal two days earlier.
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> Incidentally, his last commercial recording of Petrouchka, made Feb. 12, 15 & 17, 1960, was done with the Los Angeles Columbia Symphony Orchestra in American Legion Hall, LA, CA.. This and the Rite of Spring were issued together in a large LP-sized jewel case, coupled with his talk Apropos of Le Sacre on a third, single-faced record (sets D3L300 mono and D3S614 stereo; Apropos was recorded in NYC on Dec. 8, 1959, in Columbia's 30th St. Studio, if my memory is correct). The jewel case edition billed the orchestras for both performance as the Columbia Symphony. Unknown to virtually all purchasers, they were two completely different orchestras recorded 3000 miles apart!
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> The definitive Stravinsky discography is Philip Stuart's Igor Stravinsky - The Composer in the Recording Studio, published by Greenwood Press in 1991.
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> I hope this helps. It's probably more than you wanted to know!
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> Best,
> Gary
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> Gary Galo
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ARSCLIST] Last recording of Stravinsky conducting Rite of Spring
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> Hello everybody.
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> Does anyone know when was the last time Stravinsky recorded the Rite of
> Spring, on which label and is it still available ANYWHERE?
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> Regards,
> Ben Roth
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