Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Ansermet, L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande – Petrushka (VG/VG) – LP, UK 1958

Petrushka is an LP by L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Igor Stravinsky from 1958 released on the Decca label.

About this album

Ansermet’s Petrushka is a vivid and authoritative reading of Stravinsky’s breakthrough ballet score. Recorded with L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, it brings crisp rhythmic attack, razor-edged detail and vivid orchestral colour to one of modern music’s landmark works. Stravinsky’s 1911 score, with its mixture of Russian folk energy, dance pulse and biting harmony, became a defining statement of early 20th-century modernism. Ernest Ansermet, long associated with Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes repertoire, helped set a benchmark for lucidity and precision in this music, making the release an important reference point for the work.

Genre: Classical