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Also the second audite production with Igor Markevitch demonstrates his dedication to rhythmic precision and a transparent orchestral sound: Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps”, which had caused one of the greatest scandals in musical history at its première in 1913 by Serge Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, had remained a substantial challenge for any orchestra in the 1950s. Igor Markevitch was considered the most accomplished conductor of “Le Sacre” at the time for he, like no other, was able to master the rhythmical and technical complexities of this score.
The special relationship between the young RIAS Symphony Orchestra and Markevitch is also demonstrated by the immaculate and virtuoso interpretations of Ravel’s Second “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite and the Fifth Symphony by Arthur Honegger, which Markevitch introduced in Berlin less than a year after its world-première in Boston.

The production is part of our series „Legendary Recordings“ and bears the quality feature „1st Master Release“. This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts cannot be compared with these.

• American Record Guide | David Radcliffe | January 7, 2010

  Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev in 1912, spent his early years in Paris where he became associated with Serge Diaghilev and Nadia Boulanger. As a young...

• CD Compact | Benjamín Fontvella | January 12, 2009

  Markevitch fue uno de los directores más personales de la segunda mitad del siglo xx, un intelectual riguroso, compositor notable y vanguardista sin...

• Classica – le meilleur de la musique classique & de la hi-fi | Stéphane Friédérich | January 12, 2009

  Igor Markevitch
  Malgré une monophonie un peu étroite dans l'acoustique peu chaleureuse du Titania-Palast de Berlin, l'auditeur entre immédiatement dans l'univers...

• Diapason | François Laurent | January 11, 2009

  S'affirmant après 1945 comme un chef d'orchestre d'envergure internationale, Igor Markevitch n'oublie pas qu'il a été lancé dans le monde par...

• Die Welt | Manuel Brug | September 9, 2009

  [...] Weich fließende Farben werden hier gleichsam aus den Tasten...

• Diverdi Magazin | Arturo Reverter | January 11, 2009

  Tensión e impulso rítmico
  Don nuevas recuperaciones del arte directorial de Igor Markevitch en Audite
  Igor Markevitch dejó un gran recuerdo en España tras su años como titular de la Orquesta de la RTVE, que nació, en 1965, bajo su autoritaria...

• Fanfare | Jerry Dubins | January 7, 2010

  Igor Markevitch (1912–83) was born in Kiev into a family of Ukrainian, French, and Italian lineage. At 14, living with his family in Switzerland,...

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Jan Brachmann | August 25, 2009

  Alles ging ihm leicht von der Hand
  Die Dirigentenkarriere von Igor Markewitsch begann erst nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, als sein Spezialgebiet galt die Musik seines Landsmanns Strawinsky. Das „Sacre“ ist ein Glanzstück in dieser Serie von Wiederveröffentlichungen aus dem Berliner RIAS-Archiv
  Mal angenommen, wir stellen uns Franz Schubert mit einer Eistüte in der...

• International Record Review | January 10, 2009

  Igor Markevitch was at the height of his powers in the early 1950s and two discs of broadcast recording' with the RIAS SO, Berlin, have appeared on...

• Karlsruher Kurier | Alexander Werner | September 25, 2009

  Selbst in Kennerkreisen wird Igor Markevitch heute in seiner ganzen Bedeutung oft unterschätzt. Als glänzender Dirigent der Moderne und des...

• Rondo | Guido Fischer | August 26, 2009

  Der gebürtige Russe Igor Markevitch zählt bis heute zu den unbestritten scharfsinnigsten Dirigenten und versiertesten Sachverwaltern der klassischen...

• Scherzo | Enrique Pérez Adrián | January 12, 2008

  Gulda y otras joyas
  El sello alemán Audite (distribuidor: Diverdi) nos trae un nuevo lanzamiento en el que destaca un álbum de 4 CDs dedicado a los primeros años del...

• Stereoplay | Michael Stegemann | January 10, 2009

  „Bis ins letzte ausgeschliffen, jedoch etwas zu sehr mit unpersönlicher,...

• www.allmusic.com | Jim Leonard | January 5, 2010

  In the middle years of the 20th century, the "go-to" conductor for Stravinsky's Le sacre du Printemps was Igor Markevitch. In fact, EMI went to him...

• www.classicstodayfrance.com | Christophe Huss | January 9, 2009

  Je ne vais pas épiloguer très longtemps: ce disque met le doigt sur un problème très simple de ces éditions d'archives radio qui se multiplient. ...