IGOR STRAVINSKY

THE FIREBIRD (original 1910 version/complete ballet)

ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
- Prometheus

ALEXANDER TORADZE, piano (Scriabin)
KIROV ORCHESTRA, ST PETERSBURG
conducted by VALERY GERGIEV

CD 446 715-2 DDD
PHILIPS

- This recording is eagerly awaited by critics and fans - Valery Gergiev has received rave reviews for performances of this work:

"A master of creative tension...The complete Firebird music, which revealed conductor and orchestra as masters of musical impressionism." (The Guardian)

"Stravinsky's Firebird sends spirits soaring...With Gergiev as the dynamo, the energy produced was intense... it reminded us that Gergiev is primarily a men of the theatre and his view of Stravinsky's ballet is one of dramatic action and vivid colour." (The Telegraph)

- The Firebird is the famous fairy-tale ballet in which the Firebird helps a young prince rescue a beautiful princess from the ogre Kaschei (the immortal embodiment of evil), enabling the prince and the princess to marry.