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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; The Nightingale.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; The Nightingale. Olga Trifonova, soprano; Robert Tear, tenor; et al. Robert Craft, London Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra. Naxos 8.557501.
I didn't care overmuch for Robert Craft's conducting of Stravinsky's Firebird, issued by Naxos a few months earlier, but I found his Rite of Spring more to my liking. Craft is a noted expert in things Stravinsky, having been a close friend of the composer and a co-conductor on occasion. Still, that doesn't mean we're all going to warm to his interpretations.
While Craft seemed almost lackadaisical in his conducting of The Firebird, he seems positively energized in The Rite of Spring, if anything zipping through it at too hurried a clip. I compared his timing with several other conductors, Solti and Colin Davis among them, and found Craft a full five minutes faster through a work ...
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