Igor Stravinsky - The Recorded Legacy
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Description
Catalog no. GM 31
Limited edition no. 244
Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy is CBS Masterworks' massive box of 31 LPs, released in 1981 or 1982 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky's birth year 1882. The vast majority of Stravinsky's recordings were made for CBS Masterworks starting in 1957 -- when he was 75 years old -- and extending to 1967, when he made his last public appearances.
Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy includes, in one way or another, some 90 percent of the music Stravinsky is known to have composed. Save the inclusion of both The Firebird Ballet and its corresponding suite, alternate incarnations of works are not found here nor are several of Stravinsky's other piano pieces or the Three Pieces for String Quartet.
Apart from that, Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy runs the ‘Stravinskian’ gamut, from the opera The Rake's Progress in its entirety to Epitaphium, a late career tidbit lasting all of 70 seconds.
There are some stunning gems here -- Stravinsky's 1961 recording of the Firebird and 1960 Rite of Spring are fabulous, completely authoritative performances. There is a compelling Agon from Los Angeles in 1957, which was the first recording Columbia Masterworks issued in stereo, the 1960 Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa, never bettered, and an intense, palpitating L'histoire du Soldat Suite from 1961. The whole of disc 13, which consists of short instrumental works such as the Octet for winds, Concertino for 12 Instruments, Ragtime for 11 Instruments, and the Ebony Concerto with Benny Goodman, is all very impressive.
This set is in NM condition, with only mild shelf wear to the outer box. Original booklet with scads of photos is included - also in mint condition, as well as two heavy-paper inserts: one listing the contents of each disc, the other listing the works alphabetically and their corresponding discs. The LPs have been played only once and are from a smoke-free private collection.
This is a heavy 20-lb box set (9 kg). I will ship international. Winner must email with preferred method for correct shipping rate.
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