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Ms Gubbins's avatar

I too have lloved it since my teens, although I've not listened to it for some time, so thank you for the prompt. Even snippets are exciting to hear, still.

A decade or so ago I worked in a gift shop and The Rite of Spring was one of the 20 or so classical CDs we had to choose from as our shop soundtrack. Its changes in pace and volume; its whole structure, in fact, make it completely unsuitable as gentle plinky background music to browse to - so naturally it was my CD of choice.

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Karen Fletcher's avatar

The 37 versions are fascinating, even to a non-musician like me. Particularly like the player piano roll that tops & tails the piece

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