Strawinsky: Le sacre du printemps

Solti once likened the city of Chicago and its illustrious orchestra to a “sleeping beauty” when he arrived as music director in the autumn of 1969. But five years later, it was another ballet – Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring – that revealed how incendiary the new relationship had become, in a recording which still propels itself out of the loudspeakers half a century after it was made. “Glamorous and powerful.” — Gramophone

Introducing Decca’s new all-analogue vinyl series, DECCA PURE ANALOGUE, presenting some of the most iconic recordings from the Decca & Philips archives. The series is mastered by Rainer Maillard and cut by Sidney C. Meyer at the renowned Emil Berliner Studios, pressed on 180g vinyl at Pallas, and presented in deluxe gatefold sleeves in hand-numbered limited editions.

Only original analogue sources are used — two-track stereo and four-track quadraphonic tapes, plus analogue masters of early digital recordings — and no extra devices are utilized in the signal path, i.e. no digital sound processing at all.
Each album features the original artwork and liner notes, archival photos and facsimiles of original recording session sheets, and bespoke new notes detailing the history of the recording, the technical background, and the mastering process.

Tracklisting:
Side A
Le Sacre du printemps, K15, Pt. 1
1. I. Introduction
2. II. The Augurs of Spring. Dances of the Young Girls
3. III. Ritual of Abduction
4. IV. Spring Rounds
5. V. Games of the Rival Tribes
6. VI. Procession of the Sage
7. VII. Adoration of the Earth (The Sage)
8. VIII. Dance of the Earth

Side B
Le Sacre du printemps, K15, Pt. 2
1. IX. Introduction
2. X. Mystic Circles of the Adolescents
3. XI. Glorification of the Chosen One
4. XII. Evocation of the Ancestors
5. XIII. Ritual of the Ancestors
6. XIV. Sacrificial Dance