Audition: Stravinsky – Petrushka Neeme Jarvi - Swiss Romande Orchestra, 1993
Audition: Stravinsky – Petrushka Neeme Jarvi - Swiss Romande Orchestra Recorded 1993 Chandos As you might expect from this label, the sonics are fantastic and the playing is very good too. There are countless details which bring out of this recording. New thinking I’m phrasing too. Crucially Jarvi gives his absolute attention to the things which make this work dramatic - pauses, percussion, keyboards and bells, all beautifully balanced. It’s a fast, full-blooded and funny reading. The characters are not perhaps as detailed but the action is. There’s an extraordinary delineation of lines in the instrumental groups – caught well – and fantastic solo winds and brass but also violins. Someone will find Jarvi’s speeds rather brisk especially at the famous dances where dance may brisker than someone would like bbit the detail holds up. They’re not too fast though and they are certainly compelling. Nothing is weak and most of the time that recording is better than the rest in a pa...
