Stravinsky: Complete Edition on Deutsche Grammophon (30CD Limited Edition)

• The first edition of Stravinsky’s Complete works ever.


• Comprising Stage Works (Ballets, Operas, Oratorio), Orchestral, Choral, Solo Vocal, Chamber, Piano, Historical Recordings


• Performed by an array of great Stravinsky interpreters including Abbado, Ashkenazy, Bernstein, Bostridge, Boulez, Chailly, Craft, Gardiner, Knussen, the Labèques, Langridge, Levine, Maisky, Mustonen, Mutter, Nagano, Pletnev, Pollini, Sacher, Shelton, Terfel. Plus… Stravinsky himself, conducting a 1935 recording of his Violin Concerto.


• Bonus CD: Argerich and Barenboim dazzle with The Rite of Spring


• New recordings of four delightful miniatures (vocal / piano)


• 150-page booklet (English, French, German) with Foreword by Roger Wright (former Head of A & R at Deutsche Grammophon) and new essays by leading Stravinsky authors Richard Taruskin and Stephen Walsh, with Chronology (Stephen Walsh) and evocative historical photos


• Colour-coded presentation of works


• Synopses of operas and ballets available as a download

 

Here is a sample of what you will hear from the box set:

 

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring conducted by Pierre Boulez