Audition: Stravinsky – Petrushka - London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Vladimir Jurowski
Audition: Stravinsky – Petrushka (version 1911) London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Vladimir Jurowski Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, 2014 on the orchestra's own label One wonders if Stravinsky's music is still as popular as it was with the current wave of Russian conductors. Stravinsky was a familiar composer on record and in the concert hall in the last hundred years. He was widely admired and as his works were championed by the likes of Boulez, Bernstein and the like we've come to realise the value of his early works deeply woven in voices seeped in Russian classical tradition. But after Paris and America wooed by him, there's become an almost apologetic trickle of his major works beyond the handful of ballets. With such diffidence we are due a new champion of Stravinsky's works? So it's sad to say we have another Russian hotshot and another no-show. Jurowski presents Petrushka without the full blooded excitement of others and in this liv...
