1940 Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) Columbia MINT RECORDS
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Leonard Bernstein Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps (‘The Rite Of Spring’) Columbia. Record Condition is "Like New". Shipped with USPS Media Mail FAST AND FREE!
This item is a rare 8 record set of Igor Stravinsky himself conducting The Right of Spring. While the cover and back of the jacket are work, the records (important part) are in mint condition. Also, the record sleeves, the “playbill”, and inner pieces are excellent, and complete. The records are all from take 1, and were recorded April 4, 1940. We have included a write up from 78RPMCOMMUNITY.COM. Please see pictures for more detail.
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LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS ('The Rite Of Spring') (Stravinsky)
(Fertility of Earth: Introduction; Dance of the Youths and Maidens; Dance of Abduction; Spring Rounds; Games of the Rival Towns; Entrance of the Celebrant; The Kiss to the Earth; Dance to the Earth; The Sacrifice; Introduction - The Pagan Night; Mystic Circle of the Adolescents; Dance to the Glorified One; Evocation of the Ancestors; Ritual Performance of the Ancestors; Sacrificial Dance)
Igor Stravinsky conducting Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
8 Sides., Set M-417 (Also on LP ML 4092 and also ML 4882)
11367-D - 11370-D
AM 11371-D - 11374-D
MM 11375-D - 11378-D
Matrix numbers: XCO 27226 to XCO 27233 (All take 1)
Recorded: 4 April 1940; Liederkranz Hall, New York
Producer: Mosses Smith
Album Cover Designer: Alex Steinweiss
This set was available with the following album covers:
Steinweiss original
Generic ‘Masterworks’ Plain Cover (Light Blue cloth binding)
Review: Gramophone Record Supplement (Gramophone Shop Inc.); March 1944; Pg.8 Col.2
Review: Gramophone Record Supplement (Gramophone Shop Inc.); October 1940; Pg.6 Col.2
Review: New Guide to Music; Kolodin; 1950 ed; Pg.421 Col.2
REVIEW EXTRACT:
“...it is peerless for sonority and distinctness...”
[From] Review: New Guide to Music; 1950;
TAKEN FROM 78RPMCOMMUNTITY.COM; 2020
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