'Petrushka' is one of three innovative ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky during his 'Russian' period. With 'Petrushka', Stravinsky showed his neo-folkloric side and brought a colourful street crowd with a magician and his puppets, merchants and mummies to the ballet stage. In doing so, he showed the world that funfair and classical music are not contradictory, and his audience now heard folk music from a new perspective. Abbado's recording with the London Symphony orchestra was first released from digital 2-track in 1981. This is one of the few Deutsche Grammophon productions from 1980 in which digital 2-track and analogue 8-track were recorded in parallel. Both versions were cut, but only the digital 2-track version was issued at the time. By using the analogue 8-track master, this release now makes the recording available in purely analogue form for the very first time.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.The Shrovetide Fair - The Crowds - The Conjuring-trick

London Symphony Orchestra

2.Russian Dance

London Symphony Orchestra

3.Petrushka's Room

London Symphony Orchestra

4.The Moor's Room - Dance of the Ballerina

London Symphony Orchestra

5.Waltz. The Ballerina and the Moor

London Symphony Orchestra

6.The Shrovetide Fair (Evening)

London Symphony Orchestra

7.Dance of the Wet-nurses

London Symphony Orchestra

8.Dance of the Peasant and the Bear

London Symphony Orchestra

9.The Jovial Merchant With Two Gypsy Girls

London Symphony Orchestra

10.Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms

London Symphony Orchestra

11.The Masqueraders

London Symphony Orchestra

12.The Scuffle

London Symphony Orchestra

13.Death of Petrushka

London Symphony Orchestra

14.The Police and the Charlatan

London Symphony Orchestra

15.Apparition of Petrushka's Ghost

London Symphony Orchestra

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