Claudio Abbado - Stravinsky: Pétrouchka (1981) [2026 DSD] LP

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.

This is one of the few Deutsche Grammophon productions from 1980 in which digital 2-track and analogue 8-track were recorded in parallel. By using the analogue 8-track master, this release now makes the recording available in purely analogue form for the very first time.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.


Tracks:

A1 Premier Tableau: Fete Populaire De La Semaine Grasse - Le Tour De Passe-Passe - Danse Russe
A2 Second Tableau: Chez Petrouchka

B1 Troisième Tableau: Chez La Maure - Danse De La Ballerine - Valse. La Ballerine Et Le Maure
B2 Quatrième Tableau: Fete Populaire De La Semaine Grasse (Vers Le Soir) - Danse Des Nounous - Danse Des Cochers Et Des Palefreniers - Les Deguises

Personnel:

Conductor – Claudio Abbado
Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra