L’album "Petrouchka" de Igor Stravinsky, interprété par le London Symphony Orchestra sous la direction de Claudio Abbado, offre une lecture à la fois précise, vibrante et profondément expressive de ce chef-d’œuvre du XXe siècle.

Composé en 1911, "Petrouchka" est un ballet emblématique qui mêle folklore russe, modernité rythmique et richesse orchestrale. L’œuvre raconte l’histoire tragique d’une marionnette dotée d’émotions humaines, évoluant dans une foire animée, entre illusion et désespoir.

Dans cet enregistrement, Claudio Abbado met en valeur toute la palette de couleurs de l’orchestre : les contrastes dynamiques, les rythmes incisifs et les textures foisonnantes prennent vie avec une clarté remarquable. Le London Symphony Orchestra, réputé pour sa virtuosité, restitue avec brio l’énergie brute et la poésie singulière de cette partition.

- Igor Stravinsky "Petrushka" 180 gram gatefold LP !
- Part of The Original Source Series from Deutsche Grammophon !
- 100 % pure analog AAA mastering !
- Remastered from the original 8 track recordings at Emil Berliner Studios !
- No tape copies used, no unnecessary devices in the signal path, no digital sound processing !
- Pressed by Optimal in Germany !

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 colorful 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.

Deutsche Grammophon's Original Source Series presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original 4 and 8 track tapes in 100 % analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. Released on 180-gram vinyl records with deluxe gatefold jackets with original covers and lyrics, the series is limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.