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Article: THE DEFINITIVE 100 CLASSICAL CDs; Stravinsky: The Edition - Sacred Works (Columbia: New York and Toronto 1962-66).
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2005
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Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT
IGOR Stravinsky was the first composer to have his complete works recorded while he was still alive. Not just alive, but in the process of forsaking the styles that made him famous - Russian ballet and neo-classicism - for the outer fringes of acrid atonality.
"As he himself has pointed out, Igor Stravinsky has survived his own popularity," wrote his friend Goddard Lieberson, in 1962.
Lieberson, producer at Columbia Records and later its president, gave the composer artistic control, which meant that he either conducted the works himself or, as he grew infirm, supervised their interpretation under ...