The orchestral score of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring created a dramatic event in music history because of its originality, amazing rhythms, and highly creative use of instrumental ideas.
Before the orchestral score was completed in 1913 for the first performance as a Ballet, this work was only known by its score for two pianos. On this recording, we get to listen to Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin recapture the astounding thrill which must have been in the air when Igor Stravinsky sat down at the piano with Claude Debussy to create this landmark of modernism.
Also included on this CD is the Stravinsky Concerto for Two Pianos.
Here is the two piano version, with Martha Argerich playing one of the parts:
