Your Favorite Firebird Suites

[bassio]

Please guys, any recommendations?

[bhodges]

Interesting, the only version I have of just the Suite--not for any particular reason--is Chailly's with the Concertgebouw.  It's excellent, very well played and recorded.



If you do want the entire ballet, I like these, off the top of my head:

Gergiev/Kirov
Dutoit/Montréal
Dorati/Detroit
Jansons/Oslo

--Bruce

[MN Dave]

Interesting, the only version I have of just the Suite--not for any particular reason--is Chailly's with the Concertgebouw.  It's excellent, very well played and recorded.

If you do want the entire ballet, I like these, off the top of my head:

Gergiev/Kirov
Dutoit/Montréal
Dorati/Detroit
Jansons/Oslo

Bruce prefers the Fireball.

[bhodges]

Bruce prefers the Fireball.

Oh right...I forgot that one. 

(PS, I should have bookmarked that eBay listing, just to see who snapped it up.)

--Bruce

[BorisG]

Suite - Chailly, Gergiev/VPO (DVD), Stravinsky.
Complete - Dutoit.

[MN Dave]

I own Dorati and Detroit.

Can't be bad. 

[hornteacher]

My favorite.

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=4586

[Ephemerid]

Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestre de la Bastille - a good, full-bodied performance and recording.

I don't recommend Michael Tilson Thomas' recording (which is coupled with Persephone).  Normally I like MTT (and his recording of the Symphony of Psalms/Symphony in C/Symphony in Three Movements is excellent), but for some reason, his recording of the Firebird comes off rather thin and anemic to my ears... 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Interesting, the only version I have of just the Suite--not for any particular reason--is Chailly's with the Concertgebouw.  It's excellent, very well played and recorded.

Chailly's is the one I have too but in it's new two-fer packaging. And I agree - it's fabulous!

[val]

Regarding the 1919 Suite, I prefer the beautiful and very dynamic version of Boulez with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

I like more the Suite than the complete ballet, but this one has a remarkable version of Dorati with the LSO.

I never heard the Suites made in 1911 and 1945.

[snyprrr]

Interesting, the only version I have of just the Suite--not for any particular reason--is Chailly's with the Concertgebouw.  It's excellent, very well played and recorded.



If you do want the entire ballet, I like these, off the top of my head:

Gergiev/Kirov
Dutoit/Montréal
Dorati/Detroit
Jansons/Oslo

--Bruce

All I keep hearing is Dutoit in the Full Original? I can see that being just a little bit "better" recorded than Dorati? I'm also hearing Gergiev goes for broke?


I am listening to Rattle. It's a bit raucous, and I could see me liking Dutoit better. However, I do hear a Black Gothic streak in Rattle, like 'Firebird' is the last gasp of "Graveyard Romanicism"?? Does anyone bring out the creepy the best?

[Mirror Image]

All I keep hearing is Dutoit in the Full Original? I can see that being just a little bit "better" recorded than Dorati? I'm also hearing Gergiev goes for broke?


I am listening to Rattle. It's a bit raucous, and I could see me liking Dutoit better. However, I do hear a Black Gothic streak in Rattle, like 'Firebird' is the last gasp of "Graveyard Romanicism"?? Does anyone bring out the creepy the best?

Get Gergiev. You'll thank me later.