Stravinsky : Michael Tilson Thomas, Ralph Grierson - The Rite Of Spring & Scherzo Á La Russe For Two Pianos mp3 album

Complete your Stravinsky : Michael Tilson Thomas, Ralph Grierson collection. Mechanical, cold rendition of a fiery masterpiece. The unflattering sound does not help. Fazil Say version (overdubbing himself) is superior from any point of view.

Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson’s four-handed piano performance is proudly billed as the first recording of its kind. It’s not as complete as a traditional Rite performed by orchestra-there’s no way to replicate the solo bassoon that opens The Adoration of Earth -but it illuminates the delicate frenzy at the heart of the piece. The piano is harsh and beautiful in the second movement, The Augurs of Spring, and the penultimate movement, Ritual Action of the Ancestors, tenses up as the notes bounce and teeter chaotically.

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony, and artistic director of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy based in Miami Beach, Florida. Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California, to Ted and Roberta Thomas, a Broadway stage manager and a middle school history teacher respectively

Motoric Intense Visceral Hypnotic Narcotic. Ralph Grierson, Michael Tilson Thomas. Cage: 3 Dances; Reich: 4 Organs; Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. Three Dances, for 2 prepared amplified pianos.

Album · 2011 · 6 Songs. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (version for piano 4 hands): Part I: Adoration of the Earth (Day). 6. Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (version for piano 4 hands): Part II: The Sacrifice (Night). Recuerdos de la Guitana.